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vb. To subject (someone) to laughter or ridicule.
WordNet
Usage examples of "poke fun".
He thoroughly disapproved of my build and began to poke fun at Kuchen: couldn't he be satisfied with the gypsy models who had earned him the nickname of Gypsy Cake?
Instead she concentrated upon regaling her father with tales of the job Ruby had given her, able to poke fun at herself, eager to tell him of this blunder, that mistake, what a pleasure it was to work with men once they stopped thinking of her as a woman.
While I am not particularly sensitive to callous or ignorant remarks about my size or how I'm gettin' older, I can get a little touchy if anyone tries to poke fun at how I talk.
When my father would tell a boastful story, she would poke fun at him and the three of ,us would laugh, sometimes until we got tears in our eyes.
When my father would tell a boastful story, she would poke fun at him and the three of us would laugh, sometimes until we got tears in our eyes.
We finally ran out of people to poke fun at and our laughter faded.
In the cloud-cuckoo-land of Videssian honorifics, spatharios was the vaguest, but few imperials would poke fun at their own pretensions.
The dinner went well for him, not once did anyone poke fun at his attire.