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make fun of

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make fun of someone or something

to ridicule someone or something. Are you making fun of me? I am making fun of your hat.

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make fun of somebody/something

also poke fun at somebody/something

to make someone or something seem ridiculous by making jokes about them When she first moved north, some people made fun of her southern accent.

Related vocabulary: goof on somebody

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make fun of somebody/something

  also poke fun at somebody/something

to make a joke about someone or something in an unkind way At first the kids made fun of her because she spoke with a Dutch accent.

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make fun of

Also, poke fun at; make sport of. Mock, ridicule, as in The girls made fun of Mary's shoes, or They poked fun at Willie's haircut, or I wish you wouldn't make sport of the new boy. The first term dates from the early 1700s, the second from the mid-1800s, and the third from the early 1500s.

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make fun of

To mock; ridicule.

See also: fun, make, of