Definitions for lampoons

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lampoons lam·poon

Spelling: [lam-poon]

IPA: /læmˈpun/

Lampoons is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in lampoons (almnoops).

Definitions for lampoons

noun

1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to mock or ridicule in a lampoon:

Origin of lampoons

1635-45; French lampon, said to be noun use of lampons let us guzzle (from a drinking song), imperative of lamper, akin to laper to lap up Germanic; see lap³

Examples for lampoons

The lampoon was more than a magazine now; it was a cultural phenomenon.

A lampoon in such an edition and given away by a newsman who knew him!

Pope and Johnson alike lent their pens to lampoon the minister.

I read that you went to Harvard and wrote for the lampoon there, but how did you break into professional comedy?

"He didn't respect his talent," says Michael Gross, the former lampoon art director, who saw him frequently in California.

When expletives occur they are generally in the spirit of derision and lampoon.

These were choice morsels from the lampoon of the notary Danckaerts.

His first day back at the lampoon, he showed a copy of it to Beard.

You lie in your throat; there is no one dares make a lampoon about Arne of Guldvik.

When he arrived, carrying nothing but a knapsack, he retrieved his lampoon credit card from his wallet and broke it in two.