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self-parody en · NOUN

Etymology

From self- + parody.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Parody of one's own work.
   • Though at first blush the new IFC original series Portlandia may suggest a scathing parody of the notoriously green-to-the-point-of-neurotic Pacific Northwestern cultural hub, the show may actually be a bit closer to “self-parody”. 2011 January 25, “Portlandia”, in BOMB:
   • Mr. [Tao] Lin’s is an easy style to mock, and he often seems to be engaging in something that approaches self-parody. 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2018:

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