transitive. To answer (a person) with a bantering or mocking rejoinder; to ‘chaff’, banter. Obsolete.

transitive. To tease (a person); to make fun of. Cf. rally, v.2 2.

transitive. To take (something) as a matter for banter or ridicule. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak to (a person) in a teasing or humorously mocking way; to make fun of (a person); to ridicule or deride (a person), now usually…

To make fun of, to jest at; to ridicule, banter, or quiz (a person). Now archaic.

Originally Scottish and regional. A joke; a trick played on someone. Chiefly and now only in to get, take,or †have a rise out of: (a) to make (a…

transitive. To make the object of a joke or jokes; to poke fun at; to chaff, banter, rally.

to run a rig (and variants): to play a prank or trick. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To banter playfully; to indulge in badinage (with). †to badinage away: to get rid of by badinage (obsolete).

transitive. Originally: to make a fool of, ridicule; to swindle, cheat; to get the better of. Later also: to puzzle, flummox, confound, baffle. Now ar…

transitive. To make fun of, mock, or tease (a person); to satirize (a thing). Also occasionally intransitive: to mock, to talk wittily. Now rare.

transitive. to poke (one's) fun (at): to tease, ridicule, make fun of, esp. in a sly or indirect manner.

transitive. To tease or make fun of in a friendly or amicable manner; to josh. Now rare.

transitive. To banter, rail at, or rally, in a light and non-serious manner, or without anger, but so as to try the good nature or temper of the…

intransitive. U.S. colloquial. To tease, ridicule, make fun of. Cf. sense 13 and to run upon —— 7 at phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.

colloquial. transitive. To make fun of, mock, or tease; to play a trick on.

To draw as by persuasion or art; to draw on; hence colloquial ‘to quiz, befool’ (Farmer Slang).

transitive. To make fun of, chaff, banter, ridicule.

slang. transitive. To treat with rough merriment, ridicule, or horseplay; to chaff; to abuse.

transitive. To taunt or tease (a person); to jeer or scoff at (a person). Also: to criticize, reproach, or denigrate (a person).

transitive. To shout in this way at (a player, speaker, etc.).

To make fun of, to ‘rag’, to ridicule; to indulge in horseplay; to fool about or around. Originally U.S.

transitive. U.S. slang. To trick or tease (a person). Cf. razz, v. Also intransitive.

Only in to take the mike out of: = to take the mickey (out of) at mickey, n.1 7.

colloquial (chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand). to take the piss (out of): to make fun (of), to mock, deride, satirize; = to take the micke…

colloquial (chiefly British). to take the mickey (out of): to behave or speak satirically or mockingly; to make fun of, satirize, or debunk (a person…