pantomime
• noun 1 Brit. a theatrical entertainment involving music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy, usually produced around Christmas. 2 informal a ridiculous or confused action or situation. • verb express or represent by extravagant and exaggerated mime. — ORIGIN originally in the sense ‘actor using mime’, later ‘entertainment in which performers mime’: from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’.
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