Synonyms for poke fun
poke fun

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1. poke funverb

   Synonyms:
   make fun of

2. poke funverb

   To subject (someone) to laughter or ridicule.

   Synonyms:
   make fun of

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1. ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke funverb

   subject to laughter or ridicule

   "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"

   Synonyms:
   clapperclaw, blackguard, laugh at, make fun, rib, guy, ridicule, roast, jest at, shout, abuse

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1. poke fun

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial, U. S.] joke, jest, make fun

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1. Charlotte McKinney:

   Right now my main focus is really in the acting space, doing as many auditions as possible that fit my passion, one of which is comedy, i think modeling will always be a part of my life, but acting is much more meaningful and what feeds my soul right now. We live in such a different, kinda crazy world right now, I do love the ability to laugh and poke fun at things. Not taking anything too seriously really is the name of the game right now.

2. The Apple Pencil:

   Leave it to Apple to poke fun at styluses for years and then go create the new stylus gold standard, the $100 Apple Pencil enables the best digital writing and sketching experience I’ve ever had on a tablet.

3. Adam Carolla:

   Nothing kills comedy quite like people who are constantly offended, the Post’s impossible to be funny if we’re not allowed to poke fun at each other and that’s what’s happening with a new generation of people who seem to be offended for a living.

4. Tobly McSmith:

   Beverley Hills, 90210, not only do we poke fun and celebrate the show, we also get some jokes in about the actor's lives.

5. Ed Sealover:

   We stand behind the Bud Light transparency campaign and have no plans to change the advertising. Brendan Whitworth, chief of U.S. sales for parent company Anheuser-Busch, said roughly 40 percent of consumers want some kind of additional transparency on products they consume, which is a key data point for the company. The epic joust is far from over. MillerCoors just unleashed a fresh assault of its own. We launched new ads from Miller Lite that are light hearted way to poke fun at the fact that Bud Light is living in fantasy world and in real world, more taste is what matters, says Adam Collins, vice president of communications for MillerCoors. The ads consist of medieval scenes with actors portraying thefamous Bud Light knightandprisoners, walking off the commercial set to crack open a Miller Lite. Beer book author and Denver Business Journal Reporter Ed Sealover, said beer sales have been suffering. At this point, when you continue to lose sales, you need to peck at your competition because youre not taking those sales away from craft breweries right now, he said. Youre going to have to take it away from people who compete in the same market as you.