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
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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