fun : Idioms & Phrases

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fun run

  • noun a footrace run for fun (often including runners who are sponsored for a charity)
    funrun.
WordNet

make fun

  • verb subject to laughter or ridicule
    laugh at; make fun; ridicule; blackguard; roast; guy; rib; jest at.
    • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
    • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
    • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
WordNet

poke fun

  • verb subject to laughter or ridicule
    laugh at; make fun; ridicule; blackguard; roast; guy; rib; jest at.
    • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
    • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
    • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
WordNet

To make fan of

  • to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.
Webster 1913

To poke fun

  • to excite fun; to joke; to jest. Colloq.
Webster 1913

To poke fun at

  • to make a butt of; to ridicule. Colloq.
Webster 1913