Definition of "farce"

farce¹

/fɑːs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural farces
1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
  Quotations
  Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
  1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]
3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
  Quotations
  The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.
  2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian
4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.

farce²

/fɑːs/

verb
third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced
1. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
  Quotations
  The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
  1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
2. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
  Quotations
  The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
  1678, Robert Sanderson, Pax Ecclesiae
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
  Quotations
  if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs
  1599 (first performance; published 1600), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
4. (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
  Quotations
  farcing his letter with fustian
  1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett
5. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”)
noun
1. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.