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Slapstick   /slˈæpstˌɪk/   Listen
Slapstick

noun
1.
A boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes.
2.
Acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone.





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"Slapstick" Quotes from Famous Books



... libel on Byron, who was a libel on God." And even Schumann is a vanishing star, a literary man turned composer, a pathological case. But, as I have said, a serious idea runs through all this concerto for slapstick and seltzer siphon, and to me, at least, that idea has a plentiful reasonableness. We are getting too much melodrama, too much vivisection, too much rebellion—and too little music. Turn from Tschaikowsky's Pathetique or from any of his wailing tone-poems ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken


Words linked to "Slapstick" :   humourous, humorous, comedy, acoustic device


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