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burlesque

a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)

relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater"

Synonyms:

• Atticism,
• Broadway,
• Thalia,
• aggrandize,
• aggrandizement,
• agile wit,
• amplification,
• amplify,
• anamorphosis,
• ape,
• arlequinade,
• bad likeness,
• ballyhoo,
• belie,
• big talk,
• black comedy,
• black humor,
• blowing up,
• botch,
• broad,
• broad comedy,
• build up,
• burletta,
• camouflage,
• camp,
• caricatural,
• caricature,
• carnival,
• carry too far,
• circus,
• color,
• comedie bouffe,
• comedie larmoyante,
• comedie rosse,
• comedietta,
• comedy,
• comedy ballet,
• comedy of humors,
• comedy of ideas,
• comedy of intrigue,
• comedy of manners,
• comedy of situation,
• comedy relief,
• comic,
• comic muse,
• comic opera,
• comic relief,
• comical,
• copy,
• dark comedy,
• daub,
• derisive,
• dilatation,
• dilation,
• disguise,
• distort,
• distortion,
• doggerel,
• domestic comedy,
• drama,
• draw the longbow,
• dry wit,
• dummy,
• duplication,
• enhancement,
• enlargement,
• entertainment industry,
• esprit,
• exaggerate,
• exaggerating,
• exaggeration,
• excess,
• exode,
• exorbitance,
• expansion,
• extravagance,
• extreme,
• facsimile,
• falsify,
• farce,
• farce comedy,
• farcical,
• garble,
• genteel comedy,
• go to extremes,
• grandiloquence,
• harlequinade,
• hatchet job,
• heightening,
• high camp,
• hit off on,
• huckstering,
• humor,
• hyperbole,
• hyperbolism,
• hyperbolize,
• imitate,
• imitation,
• inflation,
• inordinacy,
• irony,
• knockoff,
• lampoon,
• lay it on,
• legit,
• legitimate stage,
• light comedy,
• low camp,
• low comedy,
• macaronic,
• magnification,
• magnify,
• make much of,
• malicious parody,
• mime,
• miscolor,
• misquote,
• misreport,
• misrepresent,
• misstate,
• misteach,
• mock,
• mock-heroic,
• mock-up,
• mockery,
• model,
• musical,
• musical comedy,
• nimble wit,
• off Broadway,
• off-off-Broadway,
• opera buffa,
• overcharge,
• overdo,
• overdraw,
• overemphasis,
• overestimate,
• overestimation,
• overkill,
• overpraise,
• overreach,
• overreact,
• oversell,
• overspeak,
• overstate,
• overstatement,
• overstress,
• paraphrase,
• parodic,
• parody,
• pasquil,
• pasquin,
• pasquinade,
• pastiche,
• pervert,
• pile it on,
• playland,
• pleasantry,
• poison pen,
• pretty wit,
• prodigality,
• profuseness,
• puff,
• puffery,
• puffing up,
• quick wit,
• raw comedy,
• ready wit,
• realistic comedy,
• repertory drama,
• replica,
• representation,
• reproduction,
• romantic comedy,
• salt,
• sarcasm,
• satire,
• satiric,
• satirical,
• satirize,
• satyr play,
• savor of wit,
• scratch,
• scribble,
• sensationalism,
• sentimental comedy,
• sham,
• show biz,
• show business,
• situation comedy,
• slant,
• slapstick,
• slapstick comedy,
• slapstick humor,
• spoof,
• squib,
• stage world,
• stagedom,
• stageland,
• stock,
• strawhat,
• strawhat circuit,
• stretch,
• stretch the truth,
• stretching,
• striptease,
• subtle wit,
• summer stock,
• superlative,
• take off,
• take off on,
• take-off,
• takeoff,
• talk big,
• talk in superlatives,
• tall talk,
• the boards,
• the footlights,
• the scenes,
• the stage,
• the theater,
• theater world,
• theatromania,
• theatrophobia,
• tout,
• touting,
• tragicomedy,
• tragicomic,
• travesty,
• twist,
• understate,
• variety,
• vaudeville,
• version,
• visual humor,
• warp,
• wicked imitation,
• wit,
• wrench