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goof on
Idioms and Phrases
Make fun of, mock, as in He was always goofing on his little brother . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
Later he anchored a bit that found the show’s correspondents Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Dulce Sloan reporting from the same diner, a goof on the campaign coverage trope.
While the fish-out-of-water story might suggest a harmless goof on the sharp 1988 Michelle Pfeiffer comedy, “Married to the Mob” with a more contemporary infusion of female empowerment, the execution struggles from the outset to find a sustainable comedic pitch.
Here, though, Drake really leans into his caricature, not just with the album’s self-parodying title and cover art but with songs like “Girls Want Girls” and particularly “Way 2 Sexy,” which samples Right Said Fred’s early-’90s smash “I’m Too Sexy” — itself a goof on club-dude narcissism — and arrives accompanied by an over-the-top music video in which Drake goes full beefcake as never before.
Mr. Biden’s critics and online agitators were quick to circulate a clip of the goof on social media, apparently seeking to raise questions about his mental wherewithal and play into the lingering theory that Mr. Biden will step aside and hand the keys to Ms. Harris before the end of his first term.
Filmed, narrated and written mostly by Wilson, a lifelong New Yorker, the show might best be described as a darkly funny goof on the explainer videos that have saturated YouTube.
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