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Difference between Have fun with someone and Make fun of someone

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have fun with someone—

1. enjoy a good time in the company of others:

  • Ashlyn was a girl who just wanted to have fun with her friends, play sports, and everything else a girl would do.

2. derive pleasure from ridiculing or taunting a person:

  • They were about to have some fun with “the old man,” as they generally called the Captain.

3. (euph.) used with sexual implication:

  • The communications contained overtures for a meeting and indications that he wanted to “have fun” with her.

make fun of someone—find smb. amusing; make a person appear ridiculous:

  • I don’t understand why you’re always making fun of me.