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slapstick
physical comedy, e.g. slipping on a banana peel, exaggeratedly losing balance, etc
slapstick
Slapstick is a simple type of comedy in which the actors behave in a rough and foolish way. slapstick comedy. humorous acting in which the performers fall over, throw things at each other etc (slapstick (19-20 centuries)). Comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and vigorous, often violent action. It took its name from a paddlelike device, probably introduced by 16th-century commedia dell'arte troupes, that produced a resounding whack when one comic actor used it to strike another. Slapstick comedy became popular in 19th-century music halls and vaudeville theatres and was carried into the 20th century by silent-movie comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops and later by Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges
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acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor
slapstick
{i} boisterous comedy characterized by horseplay and farce; stick or combination of sticks used by clowns and other comic entertainers to produce a loud slapping sound
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{s} of or pertaining to a slapstick comedy, farcical, characterized by the use of horseplay and boisterous comical actions
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a pair of sticks tied together at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect for (1)
slapstick
a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
slapstick
acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone
slapstick
characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"
slapstick
physical comedy, e.g. slipping on a banana peel