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sends up
verb
Third person singular of send up
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He sends up topspin lobs.
Not everything here sends up "masterpiece" flares.
Still, Mr. Johnson said, "This certainly sends up a flare".
But Walsh sends up the story's tendency to over-solemnity.
He sends up any number of movie maid characters as the dizzy Butterball, Mildred's dimwitted housekeeper.
Uses WWII-era slang and sends up stereotypes of helpless women.
Gosling sends up his burgeoning sex-god status, as far as the film will let him.
For example, he said: "When you are not feeling good, someone sends up some soup.
A BBC comedy, "W1A", sends up blame-shifting managers and corporate gobbledygook at the nation's broadcaster.
Here, Smith sends up the same slice of self-regarding society and interrogates its value system.
It pays homage to and sends up early modernist chestnuts like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
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