Meaning of slapstick in English:
slapstick
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noun
1mass noun Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.
‘slapstick humour’- ‘Families enjoyed the fun-filled evening of good music, slapstick comedy and all-around entertainment.’
- ‘The film is billed as a sophisticated comedy that gleefully mixes slapstick humour, with something a little more grown-up for all viewers.’
- ‘It is a comedy with both slapstick and verbal humour.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘A lack of imagination on the part of the writer, the director and the actors results in slapstick comedy and innuendoes in dialogues.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘This satirical, slapstick comedy is a feel-good film that is effortless to watch.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘This is aiming to be a sort of slapstick comedy but, as you say, it's very intermittent.’
- ‘A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.’
- ‘It would be funny, like one of the old silent slapsticks.’
- ‘The script is dreadful - even the slapstick fails to raise a smile.’
- ‘John giggled at the slapstick, not quite understanding what all of the fear in the air was about.’
- ‘Their happy laughter rang down the tunnel as they appreciated the irony, or failing that, the slapstick.’
- ‘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.’
humorous, funny, droll, amusing, entertaining, diverting, absurd, ridiculous, comical, chucklesome, farcical, silly, slapstick, hilarious, uproarious, hysterical, hysterically funny, zany2A 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’- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
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