SLAPSTICK meaning: Comedy involving exaggerated physical activity

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General (22 matching dictionaries)

slapstick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slapstick: Merriam-Webster
slapstick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
slapstick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
slapstick: Collins English Dictionary
slapstick: Vocabulary.com
Slapstick, slapstick: Wordnik
slapstick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
slapstick: Wiktionary
slapstick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
slapstick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
slapstick: Infoplease Dictionary
slapstick: Dictionary.com
slapstick: Online Etymology Dictionary
slapstick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Slapstick (The Wire), Slapstick (album), Slapstick (band), Slapstick (comics), Slapstick (disambiguation), Slapstick (musical instrument), Slapstick (novel), Slapstick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
slapstick: Rhymezone
slapstick: FreeDictionary.org
slapstick: Mnemonic Dictionary
slapstick: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

slapstick: Encyclopedia

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SlapStick: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (uncountable, comedy) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
▸ noun: (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

Opposite:

serious, dramatic, grave, solemn, humorless

Types:

pratfall, slapstick comedy, slapstick film, slapstick humor, slapstick routine, more...

Phrases:

slapstick comedy, slapstick humour, Slapstick film, Operation Slapstick, Slapstick of Another Kind, more...

Adjectives:

pure, broad, verbal, more, physical, silent, good, little, visual, violent, crude

Colors:

neon green, electric blue, sunshine yellow, hot pink, lime green, more...

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