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mockers

British  
/ ˈmɒkəz /

plural noun

  1. Also (Austral): put the mock on.   put the mocks oninformal 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

His wife followed him with a good will, because the Liège people, good mockers by nature, made game of her husband’s easy meekness.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de