Usually means: Imitative work ridiculing its subject.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. parody: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parody: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parody: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parody, parody: Wordnik
  7. parody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parody: Wiktionary
  9. parody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parody: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. parody: Dictionary.com
  13. parody: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. parody: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Parody: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parody: Rhymezone
  19. parody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Parody: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. parody: Free Dictionary
  23. parody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. parody: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. parody: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Parody: Literary Terms
  4. PARODY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. parody: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. parody: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parody: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parody: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parody: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See parodic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
noun:  (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
verb:  (transitive) To make a parody of something.

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