adj

• (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
  "The amusement park environment of seaside resorts such as Venice and the antic eclecticism of Greene & Greene's pre-Craftsman work all preceded the establishment of the movie colony in Hollywood."
• (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
  "Fetch me my Rapier Boy, what dares the ſlaue / Come hither, couer'd with an antique face, / To fleere and ſcorne at our Solemnitie?"

noun

• (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
• (often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
  "I'm fed up with your constant antics in class. Please behave yourself!"

verb

• (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
  "Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it."
• (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  "Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all."
• (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  "She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements."

noun

• (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping