Do praise terrible take-offs (8)
I believe the answer is:
parodies
'take-offs' is the definition.
(I know this)
'do praise terrible' is the wordplay.
'terrible' is an anagram indicator.
'do'+'praise'='dopraise'
'dopraise' with letters rearranged gives 'PARODIES'.
(Other definitions for parodies that I've seen before include "They take off" , "Spoofs, lampoons" , "Do aspire to comic imitations" , "Sends up" , "Feeble imitations, travesties" .)