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Definition of slapstick in English: slapsticknounˈslapstɪkˈslæpˌstɪk 1mass noun Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events. Example sentencesExamples - Families enjoyed the fun-filled evening of good music, slapstick comedy and all-around entertainment.
- This satirical, slapstick comedy is a feel-good film that is effortless to watch.
- The script is dreadful - even the slapstick fails to raise a smile.
- Their happy laughter rang down the tunnel as they appreciated the irony, or failing that, the slapstick.
- As one expects of Elton, it's all done with slapstick humour, parody, irony and lots of absurd action.
- The tone, which veers from slapstick comedy to mawkish melodrama, is as volatile as nitroglycerine.
- This is aiming to be a sort of slapstick comedy but, as you say, it's very intermittent.
- John giggled at the slapstick, not quite understanding what all of the fear in the air was about.
- It is a comedy with both slapstick and verbal humour.
- We are fed up of slapstick comedies and dialogues filled with double meaning.
- But a lot of the comedy is silly slapstick stuff, with people hitting each other with balloons and getting into fights.
- But it should not be reduced to something showing slapstick comedies and lewd jokes.
- Such typical comedy tricks such as speeding up the film, slapstick humor, and wacky looks are all present here.
- His movements, reactions and slapstick comedy were a treat to watch.
- What follows from here is unbridled mawkishness interrupted by some slapstick comedy.
- The film is billed as a sophisticated comedy that gleefully mixes slapstick humour, with something a little more grown-up for all viewers.
- It would be funny, like one of the old silent slapsticks.
- A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
- A lack of imagination on the part of the writer, the director and the actors results in slapstick comedy and innuendoes in dialogues.
- Every joke in the film works for me, even the slapstick at the sidewalk cafe and the barge, and I'm not a big fan of physical comedy.
Synonyms humorous, funny, droll, amusing, entertaining, diverting, absurd, ridiculous, comical, chucklesome, farcical, silly, slapstick, hilarious, uproarious, hysterical, hysterically funny, zany 2A device consisting of two flexible pieces of wood joined together at one end, used by clowns and in pantomime to produce a loud slapping noise. a loud and exhilarating rattle of bladders and slapsticks Example sentencesExamples - I'll slap her upside the head one of these days, and not with a slapstick.
- The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
- Jerry whacked at the old soldier's head with a sympathetic slapstick.
Definition of slapstick in US English: slapsticknounˈslapˌstikˈslæpˌstɪk 1Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events. as modifier slapstick humor Example sentencesExamples - A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
- This satirical, slapstick comedy is a feel-good film that is effortless to watch.
- John giggled at the slapstick, not quite understanding what all of the fear in the air was about.
- The film is billed as a sophisticated comedy that gleefully mixes slapstick humour, with something a little more grown-up for all viewers.
- Their happy laughter rang down the tunnel as they appreciated the irony, or failing that, the slapstick.
- A lack of imagination on the part of the writer, the director and the actors results in slapstick comedy and innuendoes in dialogues.
- It would be funny, like one of the old silent slapsticks.
- Such typical comedy tricks such as speeding up the film, slapstick humor, and wacky looks are all present here.
- His movements, reactions and slapstick comedy were a treat to watch.
- The tone, which veers from slapstick comedy to mawkish melodrama, is as volatile as nitroglycerine.
- Every joke in the film works for me, even the slapstick at the sidewalk cafe and the barge, and I'm not a big fan of physical comedy.
- But it should not be reduced to something showing slapstick comedies and lewd jokes.
- As one expects of Elton, it's all done with slapstick humour, parody, irony and lots of absurd action.
- But a lot of the comedy is silly slapstick stuff, with people hitting each other with balloons and getting into fights.
- What follows from here is unbridled mawkishness interrupted by some slapstick comedy.
- We are fed up of slapstick comedies and dialogues filled with double meaning.
- The script is dreadful - even the slapstick fails to raise a smile.
- This is aiming to be a sort of slapstick comedy but, as you say, it's very intermittent.
- Families enjoyed the fun-filled evening of good music, slapstick comedy and all-around entertainment.
- It is a comedy with both slapstick and verbal humour.
Synonyms humorous, funny, droll, amusing, entertaining, diverting, absurd, ridiculous, comical, chucklesome, farcical, silly, slapstick, hilarious, uproarious, hysterical, hysterically funny, zany - 1.1 A device consisting of two flexible pieces of wood joined together at one end, used by clowns and in pantomime to produce a loud slapping noise.
Example sentencesExamples - I'll slap her upside the head one of these days, and not with a slapstick.
- Jerry whacked at the old soldier's head with a sympathetic slapstick.
- The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
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