/spuːf/
OriginCoined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
- countableAn 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 ‘spo”
- countable, uncountableA 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.”
- countableA 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 wh”
“The final piece of the country puzzle is found at the corner of Brisbane Street and Kable Avenue, where the Hands of Fame cornerstone bears the palm-prints of more country greats. A glorious spoof, th”
- British, countable, historicalA 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 in”
- uncountableNonsense.
“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 thoug”
- Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountableSemen.
“‘Holy-Jesus-fuckin’-Christ! I’m comin’! I’m shootin’ me bolt! I’m gonna fill ya twat with spoof!’”
- not-comparableFake, 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 ”
“Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa's wacky I Don't Like Friday was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in Business Jump.”
- transitiveTo 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.”
“[T]he ensemble [of From A to Z] included […] Elliott Reid spoofing television coverage of a political convention, Kelly Brown trying out another of those nostalgic soft-shoe numbers, and so on. The fi”
“According to the audio commentary on "Treehouse Of Horror III," some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the "Treehouse of Horror" franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapid”
- transitiveTo 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 vo”
“Amidst surroundings thus happily suggesting the idyllic and pastoral associations of Arcady, is an unpretending booth, the placards on which announce it to be the temporary resting-place of the "Far-f”
- ambitransitiveTo 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.”
“However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.”
“[I]dentities in the online world can be easily spoofed. Your ten-year-old daughter will know that a middle-aged man is not her age or gender when she sees him in the physical world. But as we have see”
- Australia, New-Zealand, slangTo 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 duri”
Formsspoofs(plural) · spoofs(present, singular, third-person) · spoofing(participle, present) · spoofed(participle, past) · spoofed(past)