SPOOF

parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, send-up, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on

(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way

spoof, burlesque, parody

(verb) make a parody of; “The students spoofed the teachers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

spoof (countable and uncountable, plural spoofs)

(countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889]

(countable) A light parody. [from 1958]

(countable, Britain, historical) 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.

(uncountable) Nonsense.

Synonyms

• (light parody): parody, satire, send-up/sendup

Adjective

spoof (not comparable)

Fake, hoax.

Verb

spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)

(transitive) To gently satirize. [from 1914]

(transitive) To deceive.

(transitive, computing) To falsify.

Synonyms

• (to gently satirize): satirise/satirize, send up

Etymology 2

Noun

spoof (uncountable)

(Australian, New Zealand, slang) Semen.

Synonyms

See semen

Verb

spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To ejaculate, to come.

Synonyms

See ejaculate

Anagrams

• poofs

Source: Wiktionary



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