send-up

or send·up

[ send-uhp ]
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noun
  1. an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.

Origin of send-up

1
First recorded in 1955–60; noun use of verb phrase send up, in sense “to parody”; compare earlier Brit. academic usage “to mock, scoff at”

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How to use send-up in a sentence

  • If you call upon two ladies who are boarding at the same house, do not send up your card to both at the same time.

  • From the middle rises the fortress of the Kremlin, the many churches send up a forest of dome-capped towers.

    Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
  • Send up and say you expect one, and then W— must have the guard up, and pay you proper respect.

    Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
  • In spite of the persistent cold weather there has been enough excitement on the farm to send up the temperature several degrees.

  • "Send up the provost brigade," was Grant's despatch sent to City Point.

    The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.

British Dictionary definitions for send up

send up

verb(tr, adverb)
  1. slang to send to prison

  2. British informal to make fun of, esp by doing an imitation or parody of: he sent up the teacher marvellously

nounsend-up
  1. British informal a parody or imitation

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Other Idioms and Phrases with send-up

send-up

Put in prison, as in He'll be sent up for at least ten years. [Mid-1800s]

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