Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
HFBoards has an incredibly toxic community, but it also has some pretty great parts as well (there's some very in-depth discussion on occasion, as well as some humorous threads). Still, the community (and awful moderators) makes me not want to stick around for the great bits.
shaduf or shadoof (both: shÉdÅfË, shaeËdÅf) [ shÃ¤ËdÅf ], key primitive device used to lift water from a well or stream for irrigation. Purposes essentially the device consists of a long boom balanced across a horizontal support from 8 to 10 (ft.2â4 3) m above the. Ground the beam has a, long thin end and a, short stubby. end