What is "poking fun"

Usage examples of "poking fun".

But I am quite used to students poking fun at my death, I assure you!

He was poking fun at me, and I smiled, and the occult emanations rising from the ground faded quickly: dim, dimmer, gone.

First I thought you were poking fun at me, teasing me-but you never smiled.

Borric began talking to himself, a habit Erland had been poking fun at since they were boys.

Do you really think I'd have the gall now to go running for shelter into the very Sanctuary I was poking fun at, Sheerin?

She seemed to be poking fun at him because he could not possibly have anything to withholdhe was too dull to have any secrets.

Peter looked closely at Jack to see whether he was poking fun at him, but quite soberly, Jack was opening his good advice.

Only with effort was he able to keep his voice level now, as though he wasn't poking fun at me, just retelling the story.

From the laughter, Anna surmised Zeddie made up the lyrics as she went along, poking fun at the business of rangering and the politics of caving.