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

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

It began with an hour-long red-carpet special, in which chipper NBC mainstays, mostly from the “Today” show, asked forty years’ worth of mockers and mockees anodyne questions.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

But the mockers are wrong: Fox nailed it.

From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2013

I wrote last that I was running about the streets of Syracuse, somewhat helplessly, not without being laughed at by the mockers, asking all the people whether no Vandals had been seen.

From The Scarlet Banner by Dahn, Felix

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