mimer

noun

Definition of mimernext
as in lampooner

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  1. pantomime
  2. mime
  3. parodist
  4. pantomimist
  5. mummer
  6. satirist
  7. rubber stamp
Noun
  • Lloyd Webber will continue writing with Terrio and Major, while Harrison prepares to mount the London Palladium’s raucous annual pantomime.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Physically and textually, Das Ersatz is a sweet, jittery Gen-Z pastiche, a postmodern pantomime that splatters the walls with swooning angst, along with a barrage of citations both high and low, without losing its soft belly or its warm heart.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 June 2024
Definition of pantomime
Noun
  • After all, Miuccia Prada has a PhD in political science, trained at The Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and performed as a mime artist for five years before entering family business founded by her grandfather in 1913.
    Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • During one portion of the opening event, a crew of breakdancing mimes used massive Louis Vuitton trunks as part of their chaotic choreography.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
Definition of mime
Noun
  • Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — which the accordion-playing master parodist co-wrote and produced — beat out Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, Fire Island, Hocus Pocus 2 and Prey to land Yankovic his first Emmy, adding to a career that’s already witnessed five Grammy Awards wins.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
Definition of parodist
Noun
  • The hat will be put to good use this weekend when Hager pays tribute to Red Skelton, the late pantomimist and radio and television comedian.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Image Reo King Sanshiro, a pantomimist, was standing outside a Chinese restaurant on a busy street in Kumamoto City.
    New York Times, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2017
Definition of pantomimist
Noun
  • Passyunk Avenue also features a replica of the mummers costume Jason wore during a parade after the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • For Martin, any rivalry between the shows is a mummer’s farce (that is, foolish).
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2022
Definition of mummer
Noun
  • There’s a recurrent overstating of baseball’s significance: the satirist Ring Lardner called it the World Serious.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This is where satirists like Stewart can help fill in the gaps: By juxtaposing populist authoritarians’ glittering generalities with the ugly reality of life under authoritarianism.
    Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
Definition of satirist
Noun
  • Think of them as an early version of a rubber stamp — but one that rolled across a wet clay tablet rather than pounded onto a paper surface.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • None is a rubber stamp and could pose major problems in a second Trump term.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of rubber stamp
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