mockers
Britishplural noun
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
Their mockers understood, however, that, as far as most of the country was concerned, the battle of images was the only one that these gun-toting occupiers would be fighting.
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
Howdy, bowleg," was the greeting shouted by one of these motoring mockers, who looked down on our saddled steeds, "better get a hustle on them hayburners.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd
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