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What is the noun for slapstick?

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slapstick
  1. (uncountable) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
  2. (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. burlesque, farce, satire, comedy, travesty, pantomime, parody, caricature, pasquinade, skit, play, humor, humour, knockabout, slapstick comedy, comic play, pratfall comedy, comic opera, physical comedy, knockabout comedy, vaudeville, buffoonery, sitcom, situation comedy, comic film, light entertainment, clowning, low comedy, takeoff, laffer, schtick, light comedy, spoof, squib, visual comedy, interlude, horseplay, camp, mockery, mock, broad comedy, comic drama, send-up, gag show, field day, black comedy, high camp, low camp, campy art, lampoon … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The theater troupe rehearsed a slapstick for the upcoming comedy festival, filled with hilarious buffoonery and playful horseplay.”
      “During the school play, the actor's slapstick had the entire audience in fits of laughter.”
      “Postle has a knack for combining slapstick comedy and pathos, which is very effective in this instance.”
slapsticker
  1. Someone who performs slapstick comedy.
  2. A play, film or similar work characterised by slapstick.
slapstickery
  1. The art of performing slapstick.
slapstickeries
  1. (rare) plural of slapstickery
slapstickers
  1. plural of slapsticker
slapsticks
  1. plural of slapstick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. burlesques, farces, satires, comedies, travesties, pantomimes, parodies, caricatures, pasquinades, skits, plays, humors, humours, knockabouts, comic operas, vaudevilles, buffooneries, sitcoms, situation comedies, clownings, spoofs, squibs, interludes, mocks, horseplay, mockeries, camps, laffers, schticks, takeoffs, field days, black comedies, send-ups, lampoons, imitations, ribs, impressions, impersonations, sendups, copies, ridicules, cartoons, mockings, simulations, put-ons, tomfooleries, shenanigans … more
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