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mocks (mɒks) 

Definitions

plural noun

  1. (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations

  2. See to put the mocks on

    = put the mockers on see mockers

mock (mɒk Pronunciation for mock ) 

Definitions

verb

  1. when intr, often foll by at to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)
  2. tr to imitate, esp in fun; mimic
  3. tr to deceive, disappoint, or delude
  4. tr to defy or frustrate ⇒ the team mocked the visitors' attempt to score

noun

  1. the act of mocking
  2. a person or thing mocked
  3. a counterfeit; imitation
  4. often plural (informal) (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations

adjective

  1. sham or counterfeit
  2. serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposes ⇒ a mock battle, mock finals

See also

mock-up

Derived Forms

ˈmockable adjective
ˈmocker noun
ˈmocking noun, adjective
ˈmockingly adverb

Word Origin

C15: from Old French mocquer

Synonyms

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= laugh at, insult, tease, ridicule, taunt, scorn, sneer, scoff, deride, flout, make fun of, wind someone up, poke fun at, chaff, take the mickey out of, jeer at, take the piss out of, show contempt for, make a monkey out of, laugh to scorn,
= mimic, do, take off, imitate, ape, parody, caricature, send up, counterfeit, travesty, lampoon, burlesque, satirize
= foil, defeat, disappoint, frustrate, defy, thwart
= deceive, disappoint, fool, cheat, mislead, let down, elude, belie, dupe, delude
= imitation, pretended, artificial, forged, fake, false, faked, dummy, bogus, sham, fraudulent, pseudo, counterfeit, feigned, spurious, ersatz, phoney or phony,
= laughing stock, mockery, fool, dupe, sport, travesty, jest, Aunt Sally

Example Sentences Including 'mocks'

Crucify Azhar if he mocks players, but also give him the power to hoof out anyone who is upsetting the team's equilibrium or abuses him.
India Today (1996)
First Black Watch bomb fiend was white; Soldiers ' disgust as video mocks our dead
Sun, News of the World (2004)
Labor ignores -- or worse, mocks -- these Christian groups at its peril.
The Australian (2004)
One which mocks the illusion, created by those magnificent athletes, that we are an elite nation of ultra-achievers.
The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2004)
She wears her mother's gold jewellery and mocks her sister with her mother's words.
Various Looking For the Spark
The show - based on a telly sketch by Victoria Wood which mocks the soaps - opened at the Theatre Royal last night.
Sun, News of the World (2005)
`All the people now laugh and say I have married a coward," mocks Brynhild.
David Day Tolkien's Ring

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