send-up

See also: sendup and send up

English

WOTD – 1 November 2011

Alternative forms

• sendup

Etymology

Deverbal from send up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndˌʌp/

• Audio (Australia):

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Noun

send-up (plural send-ups)

1. A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.

   Coordinate terms: lampoon, parody, takeoff, travesty

   • 2006, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, page 115:

     The tired storyline, centered on a lesbian couple's search for a sperm donor, is irritatingly spoofish and lacks the subtlety that makes for great send-ups.

   • 2016 June 2, David Sims, “'Popstar': Celebrity Satire Done Right”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Popstar doesn’t quite reach This Is Spinal Tap levels of satire (few things could), but as a send-up of the mores of today’s celebrity-obsessed culture, it largely succeeds.

   • 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The animated sitcom, long a magnet for controversy, incurred the wrath of the current US administration for its brutal and graphic send-up of Donald Trump as a petty, micro-penised dictator, as well as parent company Paramount’s cowardly capitulations to him.

Translations

satirical imitation

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պարոդիա (hy) (parodia), ծաղրերգություն (hy) (caġrergutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: пародия (bg) f (parodija), карикатура (bg) f (karikatura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戏仿 (zh) (xìfǎng), 戲仿 / 戏仿 (zh) (xìfǎng)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: parodie (nl) f, persiflage (nl) f
• Finnish: parodia (fi)
• French: parodie (fr) f
• German: Parodie (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 조롱 (ko) (jorong)
• Polish: parodia (pl) f, przedrzeźnianie n
• Portuguese: paródia (pt) f
• Russian: паро́дия (ru) f (paródija)
• Spanish: parodia (es) f
• Swedish: parodi (sv) c, drift (sv) c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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