"make game of" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make game of.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes game of [present, singular, third-person], making game of [participle, present], made game of [participle, past], made game of [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,made>}} make game of (third-person singular simple present makes game of, present participle making game of, simple past and past participle made game of)
  1. (idiomatic) To ridicule; to make fun of. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: make a laughingstock of, make fun of Translations (to make fun of): 嘲笑 (cháoxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 戲弄 /戏弄 (xìnòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 諷刺 /讽刺 (fěngcì) [formal] (Chinese Mandarin), 拿……開玩笑 /拿……开玩笑 (ná ... kāi wánxiào) [colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), 開涮 /开涮 (kāishuàn) [Northern-Mandarin, colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), 冷嘲熱諷 /冷嘲热讽 (lěngcháorèfěng) [formal] (Chinese Mandarin), pilkata (Finnish), whakangako (Māori)

Inflected forms

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