Definition of "parody"

parody

/ˈpæɹədi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural parodies
1. A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
  Quotations
  The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
2. (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
verb
third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied
1. To make a parody of something.