- an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
- any ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature.
- a humorous and provocative stage show featuring slapstick humor, comic skits, bawdy songs, striptease acts, and a scantily clad female chorus.
- involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject.
- of, relating to, or like stage-show burlesque.
- to make ridiculous by mocking representation.
- to use caricature.
- an artistic work, esp literary or dramatic, satirizing a subject by caricaturing it
- a ludicrous imitation or caricature
- a play of the 17th–19th centuries that parodied some contemporary dramatic fashion or event
- a bawdy comedy show of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the striptease eventually became one of its chief elements
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a burlesque
- to represent or imitate (a person or thing) in a ludicrous way; caricature
