slapstick
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- noun
- /ˈslæpˌstɪk/
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comedia física
- Kids love cartoons that incorporate slapstick antics, such as characters slipping on banana peels and bumping into walls.
- slapstick comedy
- slapstick humor
- slapstick routine
Examples
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Many viewers enjoy the classic slapstick scenes, where individuals comically collide or engage in over-the-top physical comedy.
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Unfortunately, we could not understand the jokes they were saying, although the slapstick was obvious.
Academic text (2005) -
It's like slapstick humor, which is an extreme, an extreme version of it, right?
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That's like a slapstick comedy, man.
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British Wit vs. American Slapstick
Blog text (32) -
In recent years, he'd cut films only for Mel Adler, a droll, balding guy who was one of Hollywood's leading directors of slapstick comedy.
Fiction book (1997) -
Similarly, the authors think Neanderthals could probably laugh at humor—slapstick, clowning—but wouldn't understand jokes.
Blog text (11) -
The film relies heavily on slapstick humor, featuring comical falls and exaggerated miscommunication between characters.
Synonyms
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3.2
Acting in a silly way to make people laugh
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5.8
A series of mistakes that cause funny, confusing problems
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6.7
Funny acting in plays or films that uses physical actions and rude jokes
Funny performance by a clown with acts and physical tricks
A short funny act that makes people laugh in a show
How Sophisticated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slapstick comes from the two words slap ('a quick hit') and stick ('a piece of wood') and first named a small wooden tool used in shows that makes a loud slapping noise without hurting anyone. So slapstick now means a type of comedy with big, physical actions like falls and silly fights that are meant to make people laugh.