spoof
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spoof¹
- /spuːf/ US, UK
Rhymes with -uːf
Where it comes from
Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
noun spoofs
- An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. “Rahther, I say. But you understand, of course, that I’m giving him a bit of spoof.” / “A bit of what?” / “Spoof—spoof. Is it possible that you have been here since Saturday without learning what ‘spoof’ means? It means to chaff, to joke. In the States the slang equivalent would be ‘to string’ someo
- A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack. Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now.
- A light parody. On Broadway, where it opened in 1949, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a spoof of the madcap Twenties which gave Carol Channing her first starring role; on the screen, it was an up-to-date spoof of sex which gave Marilyn Monroe her first starring role in a musical.
- A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. The British journalist and author Richard Boston supplies an illustrative example of a drinking game once commonly played in British public houses but which has since faded from use: The game Spoof involves three or more players concealing between zero and three coins or similar small objects in a c
- Nonsense. I think you used the expression that you came out because people at home were not aware whether it was "spoof" or whether it really could be carried into effect?—A large number of people at home thought it was "spoof."
- A constructed number or solution that satisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.
adjective
- Fake, hoax. His most recent art project, 'Consuming Desire', explored men's relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof sex shop and a spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography.
verb spoofs · spoofing · spoofed
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To gently satirize.
Her [Jean Harlow's] best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess.
Similar: send up
- To deceive. Bandy is a few miles from Duffersville—how many I won't say, because when, on local information, I told Ebsworth three and he walked it, he declared he had been deliberately spoofed, and went about vowing reprisals.
- To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes. The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.
spoof²
- /spʊf/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ʊf
Where it comes from
Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.
noun
verb spoofs · spoofing · spoofed
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To ejaculate, to come.
[T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depic
Similar: ejaculate
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: parody, sendup, travesty, pasquinade, lampoon, mockery, burlesque, charade, takeoff, satire, falsify, pretend, counterfeit, simulated, simulate, forge
Translations
Every language
noun act of deception, hoax
| Español | engaño |
|---|---|
| Português | persuasão |
| Français | duperie, farce |
| Deutsch | Täuschung, Schwindel |
| Русский | обман obman |
noun light parody
| Español | parodia |
|---|---|
| Português | paródia |
| Français | parodie |
| Deutsch | Parodie, Verulkung |
| Русский | пародия parodija |
noun nonsense
| Español | disparate |
|---|---|
| Português | besteira |
| Français | blague |
| Deutsch | Scherz, Verulkung |
| Русский | чепуха čepuxa, чушь čušʹ, нонсенс nonsens |
verb to gently satirize
| Español | parodiar |
|---|---|
| Português | satirizar |
| Français | parodier |
| Deutsch | reinlegen, parodieren |
| Русский | пародировать parodirovatʹ, иронизировать ironizirovatʹ |
verb to deceive
| Español | engañar |
|---|---|
| Português | persuadir |
| Français | tromper |
| Deutsch | täuschen, verschleiern |
| Русский | обманывать obmanyvatʹ |
verb to falsify
| Español | suplantar |
|---|---|
| Português | falsificar |
| Français | spoofer |
| Deutsch | fälschen, verfälschen, falsifizieren |
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title = {spoof},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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