mock
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.
to challenge; defy: His actions mock convention.
to deceive, delude, or disappoint.
a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
something mocked or derided; an object of derision.
an imitation; counterfeit; fake.
Shipbuilding.
a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
Also called mock mold . bed (def. 23).
Origin of mock
1synonym study For mock
Other words for mock
Other words from mock
- mock·a·ble, adjective
- mock·er, noun
- un·mocked, adjective
Words Nearby mock
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How to use mock in a sentence
Customers nonetheless took to Twitter to vent about the latest delays, and mock Robinhood’s performance.
Robinhood app stumbles amid surge in Apple, Tesla trading volume | Jeff | September 1, 2020 | FortuneIt was transformed into a “mock marketplace… with everything from Andy Warhol shopping bags screen printed with Campbell’s Soup cans, to Tom Wesselman plastic turkeys to illustrate the ideals of the American consumption,” she says.
Four months after NASA chose three teams as finalists, one of the teams, led by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin, on Thursday delivered a 40-foot tall mock-up lander to the space agency for testing.
Locals wound up crowding the park and shouting obscenities and mocking officials.
Morning Report: Rural Districts Still Scrambling to Prepare for Online Learning | Voice of San Diego | August 12, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThompson mocked up multiple versions and tested how people interpreted them with help from the Science News staff plus some college roommates.
She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.
Sia and Shia LaBeouf’s Pedophilia Nontroversy Over ‘Elastic Heart’ | Marlow Stern | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSatirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession | Pauline Kael | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTArab standup comics, and even an Iraqi TV show, regularly mock ISIS mercilessly.
Dogs were used in the interrogations, and the accused were subjected to mock executions.
For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockNow men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.
Gone, too, is the hamlet of Garratt, whose mock elections of a Mayor caused such convivial excitement a century ago.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperEven the mock hero, the good young man who tries to raise himself, has something comic in him.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsDispense with ornaments altogether rather than wear mock jewelry.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for mock
/ (mɒk) /
(when intr, often foll by at) to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)
(tr) to imitate, esp in fun; mimic
(tr) to deceive, disappoint, or delude
(tr) to defy or frustrate: the team mocked the visitors' attempt to score
the act of mocking
a person or thing mocked
a counterfeit; imitation
(often plural) informal (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations
sham or counterfeit
serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposes: a mock battle; mock finals
Origin of mock
1- See also mock-up
Derived forms of mock
- mockable, adjective
- mocker, noun
- mocking, noun, adjective
- mockingly, adverb
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