Definition of "send-up" []

• Informal An amusing imitation or parody; a takeoff: "The absurd trial is, of course, a send-up of the Dublin courts” ( New Yorker). (noun)

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• "I mean, I GET that the Mutt-swinging-from-vines thing was supposed to be a little Tarzan send-up ... but it didn't amount to anything."
• "Corbin will play Lance Buchanan an obvious send-up of Nathan's One Life to Live character, Joey Buchanan, Temptations' handsome and dashing lead actor who has the reputation as a ladies' man."
• "Colbert's segment is obviously a send-up, but it's based on a real battle taking place in Washington, D.C. over the 2007 Energy Independence Act-mandated phase out of incandescent light bulbs, starting with 100-watt bulbs in 2012."