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send up

• give an exaggerated imitation of someone or something in order to ridicule them.
• "we used to send him up something rotten"
Similar: satirize, ridicule, make fun of, parody, lampoon, mock, caricature, imitate, ape, take off, spoof, take the mickey out of, monkey, take the piss out of,
• sentence someone to imprisonment.
• "he was sent up for arson"

send-up noun

• an act of imitating someone or something in order to ridicule them; a parody.
• "a delicious send-up of a speech given by a trendy academic"
Similar: satire, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, caricature, take-off, skit, squib, imitation, impression, impersonation, mockery, mimicry, travesty, spoof, mickey-take, pappyshow, pasquinade, pasticcio, piss-take,


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