slapstick

Example Sentences

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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

Russian humor, meanwhile, “is slapstick, only you actually die.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

There was the newsreel that told of amazing inventions and adventures in far-off lands; there were the cartoons and the slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland