lampoon

From French lampon.

• IPA^(key): /læmˈpuːn/

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lampoon (plural lampoons)

1. A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.

• lampoonery

lampoon (third-person singular simple present lampoons, present participle lampooning, simple past and past participle lampooned)

1. To satirize or poke fun at.

• Thesaurus:defame

• lampooner

• lampoon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lampoon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.