SLAPSTICK


Meaning of SLAPSTICK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

slapstick comedy (= in which the performers do silly things like falling over, getting dirty etc )

The tradition of slapstick comedy goes back to the early days of cinema.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And I don't think slapstick is funny.

Except for very basic slapstick , humour travels uncertainly. 4.

Fate seemed determined to translate his dramatic mission into slapstick .

He is playful, too, managing the difficult manoeuvre of translating wit into sound without resorting to slapstick .

Much of the comedy is slapstick and loaded with black slang.

Repetitive slapstick , it has the charm of earliest documentary film.

She appropriated slapstick and hyperbole to the delicious purpose of lampooning the fathead who made her life miserable.

That's why nuclear war is so frightening - like slapstick .

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