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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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The almost outlandish thing about “Herr, unser Herrscher” is that it does not simply take the point of view of the mourners and the mockers.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

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

But the mockers are wrong: Fox nailed it.

From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2013

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

From Seven Poems and a Fragment by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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