slapstick
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noun
1.
broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
2.
a stick or lath used by harlequins, clowns, etc., as in pantomime, for striking other performers, especially a combination of laths that make a loud, clapping noise without hurting the person struck.
adjective
3.
using, or marked by the use of, broad farce and horseplay: a slapstick motion picture.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. comedy characterized by horseplay and physical action |
| b. (as modifier): slapstick humour | |
| 2. | a flexible pair of paddles bound together at one end, formerly used in pantomime to strike a blow to a person with a loud clapping sound but without injury |
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Slapstick
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Example sentences
There are funny moments but almost none of the picture, except for outworn slapstick devices, is comedy at all.
The injuriousness of this fictional world might be explained, of course, by slapstick convention.
They enjoy unlikely situations, stories about triumphs of others, and slapstick comedy.
Rapp is writing a kind of spiritual slapstick comedy.
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