Definitions for mocks

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mocks mock

Spelling: [mok]

IPA: /mɒk/

Mocks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in mocks (ckmos).

Definitions for mocks

noun

1. a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
2. something mocked or derided; an object of derision.
3. an imitation; counterfeit; fake.
4. Shipbuilding. a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing. bed (def 23).

adjective

1. feigned; not real; sham:

Verb phrases

1. mock up, to build a mock-up of.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
2. to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
3. to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.
4. to challenge; defy:
5. to deceive, delude, or disappoint.

verb (used without object)

1. to use ridicule or derision; scoff; jeer (often followed by at).

Origin of mocks

1400-50; late Middle English mokken Middle French mocquer

Examples for mocks

Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.

Dogs were used in the interrogations, and the accused were subjected to mock executions.

Like the forfeits in a barbers shop, As much in mock as mark.

Akbar used his time on the stand to mock Kimberlin some more.

Nor were they the most horrible of those dreams in which she would help him to mock me.

This year, Hongkongers participated in PopVote, a mock referendum that gathered nearly 800,000 votes via smartphone ballots.

To treat a child wholly as an adult would be to mock and destroy it.

Meeting Casanova in the entry, he gave him precedence with mock politeness.

Despite the lack of an immediate impact, the mock vote infused the practice of democracy into the lives of Hongkongers.

"He's a bad boy," said the Bookmaker, in a tone of mock condemnation.