1. A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution. See synonyms at caricature. 2. A light, good-humored satire.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: lam·pooned, lam·poon·ing, lam·poons To ridicule or satirize in or as if in a lampoon.
ETYMOLOGY:
French lampon, perhaps from lampons, let us drink (from a common refrain in drinking songs), first person pl. imperative of lamper, to gulp down, of Germanic origin.
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