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mockers

British

/ ˈmɒkəz /

plural noun

Also (Austral): put the mock on. put the mocks on. informal to ruin the chances of success of

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Etymology

Origin of mockers

C20: perhaps from _mock

Example Sentences

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Equal-opportunity mockers Cleese and Idle will be at the Moore Theatre in Seattle on Oct. 26-27, 2016.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2016

The Bundy mockers were also kicking down, in a sense, at rural people.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2016

This multimedia fluidity is also why, as Grantland noted last year, it’s hopeless to try to out-meme Drake, no matter how hard mockers try: “You can’t invent Draking. Drake’s been Draking for 27 years.”

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2015

But the mockers are wrong: Fox nailed it.

From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2013

The mockers who exclaim: "Whom will he make to understand שמועה?" take, with a sneer, out of his mouth the word upon which chap. xxi.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

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