Burlesque

1. n. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
2. a. Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
3. n. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
4. n. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.