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send-up

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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

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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  • A horse hitched to the end of the chain hauls up the log, which is guided by the "send-up men" with their cant-hooks.

    Handwork in Wood

    William Noyes

Word Origin and History for send-up

n.

"a spoof," British slang, 1958, from verbal phrase send up "to mock, make fun of" (1931), from send (v.) + up (adv.), perhaps a transferred sense of the public school term for "to send a boy to the headmaster" (usually for punishment), which is attested from 1821.

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