slapstick
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It used to be slapstick gags like this all the way around.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2026
Stuttgart added another in slapstick fashion when Atakan Karazor fell in the box and squeezed the ball over the line with his hip in stoppage time.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
It’s a shade of slapstick in a movie constructed around juvenile pratfalls and targeted destruction that allows O’Hara’s mom to retain her dignity.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
Park stages Man-su’s homicide attempts as slapstick set pieces in which our clumsy antihero himself barely gets out alive.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
She snapped a needle from a cactus and with the slapstick pantomime of a circus clown pretended to pick her teeth with it.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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