goof on

Idioms  

1. Make fun of, mock, as in He was always goofing on his little brother. [Slang; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

Here, though, Drake really leans into his caricature, not just with the album’s self-parodying title and cover art but with songs like “Girls Want Girls” and particularly “Way 2 Sexy,” which samples Right Said Fred’s early-’90s smash “I’m Too Sexy” — itself a goof on club-dude narcissism — and arrives accompanied by an over-the-top music video in which Drake goes full beefcake as never before.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Biden’s critics and online agitators were quick to circulate a clip of the goof on social media, apparently seeking to raise questions about his mental wherewithal and play into the lingering theory that Mr. Biden will step aside and hand the keys to Ms. Harris before the end of his first term.

From Washington Times

Filmed, narrated and written mostly by Wilson, a lifelong New Yorker, the show might best be described as a darkly funny goof on the explainer videos that have saturated YouTube.

From New York Times

And still another version recorded during an epic jam session at London's Townhouse studio is a funky, exaggerated take that collapses into a shambling goof on the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night."

From Salon

III’” — to goof on anyone still getting accustomed to such an idea — “and why we have sausages around our heads” on the album’s cover, which has the sisters posing behind the counter at Canter’s Deli, where they played their first show with their parents in 2000.

From Los Angeles Times