Usually means: Imitating heroism with exaggerated irony.
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  1. mock-heroics: Merriam-Webster
  2. mock-heroics, mock-heroics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mock-heroics: Dictionary.com
  4. mock-heroics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mock-heroics: Encyclopedia

(Note: See mock-heroic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mock-heroic)

adjective:  (literature) Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
noun:  (literature) A work in the mockheroic style.
▸ Also see mock-heroic


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