n. [ F. lampon a drinking song, fr. lampons let us drink, -- the burden of such a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire. ]
Like her who missed her name in a lampoon,
And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.
n. The writer of a lampoon. “Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. [ 1913 Webster ]