Definitions for mock

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mock mock

Spelling: [mok]

IPA: /mɒk/

Mock is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in mock (ckmo).

Definitions for mock

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 mock

1400-50; late Middle English mokken Middle French mocquer

Examples for mock

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.

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.

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

Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.

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

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

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

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