All 17 Uses of

mock

in

Underworld, by DeLillo

They have a size to them, a natural stamina that mocks his own bible-school indoctrination even as it draws him to the noise.†

mocks = makes fun of

running backwards for a stretch, high-stepping, mocking, showing Bill the baseball.
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mocking = making fun of

It was not outside Bud's effective range to say something personal about his wife, maybe her sex preferences or digestive problems, and whenever he mentioned her name old Richard caught his breath, hoping and fearing something intimate was coming, and even though he knew Bud did this to shock and repel him, Richard absorbed every word and image and smell description, watching Bud's long creased face for signs of mockery.†

mockery = something that is ridiculous OR the teasing of someone in a disrespectful manner

He had a hard grin that mocked whatever facile sentiments you might be tempted to shelter in the name of your personal conspiracy credo.†

mocked = made fun of

The rest measured out the time so their departure would not seem influenced by the spectacle, the protest, whatever it was—the mockery of their sleek and precious evening.†

mockery = something that is ridiculous OR the teasing of someone in a disrespectful manner

He unzippers this word with a certain defensive zest as if it sums up all the insufficiencies that have mocked him until this point.†

mocked = made fun of

If the early paper waves were slightly hostile and mocking, and the middle waves a form of fan commonality, then this last demonstration has a softness, a selfness.†

She sat high in the seat, reciting details, and wagged her head, mock-girlish but also girlish.†

Sims went over and collared him, literally, got him in a headlock and mock-pummeled his shaved dome.†

He issued mock-comintern manifestos about the contents, with personal asides, and the underground press was quick to print this stuff.†

What's your name again?" she said flatly, teasing out a casually Complex irony—mocking herself and me and the swimming pool and the date palms.†

Eric had a fake stutter he liked to use to texture the conversation, a thing he'd developed to mock himself or his listener, although neither one of them stuttered, or maybe he was imitating some nightclub comic or simpy character on TV—it wasn't clear to Matt.†

Then you hear the melody again, one more time, the familiar march from Prokofiev, not the mock-heroic organ but full orchestra now, and the pitch is very different, forget the amusing radio reminiscence, it is all vigilance and suppression, the FBI in peace and war and day and night, your own white-collar cohort of the law.†

They'd all survived a hellish week and he'd gone dragging through four club dates coast to coast in a state of graduated disarray and now it was over and he was safe and he was appearing in concert and he should have been standing here chanting Were not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both ways.†

Salugi, they cried, that strange word, maybe some corruption of the Italian saluto, maybe a mock salutation—hello, we've got your hat, now try and get it back.†

Definitions:

(1) (mock as in: don't mock me)
make fun of (ridicule--sometimes by imitating in an exaggerated manner)

or (more rarely): just to make fun or to be ridiculous without targeting anyone as a victim

These senses of mockery come together when a comedian pokes fun at a politician by pretending to be the politician and saying ridiculous things.
(2) (mock as in: a mock trial)
not real
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.