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spoof
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Word definitions for spoof in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, "to hoax, deceive, trick;" from 1914 as "to parody or satirize;" see spoof (n.). Related: Spoofed ; spoofing .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "A Five Minute Hamlet" is a very funny spoof of Shakespeare's most famous play. ▪ The film was a spoof on Hollywood cop movies. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Audiences of the time might have been forgiven for thinking the dance ...
Usage examples of spoof.
While reading a paper on public key steganography and parasite network identity spoofing he mechanically assimilates a bowl of corn flakes and skimmed milk, then brings a platter of wholemeal bread and slices of some weird seed-infested Dutch cheese back to his place.
While reading a paper on public key steganography and parasite network identity spoofing he mechanically assimilates a bowl of cornflakes and skimmed milk, then brings a platter of whole grain bread and slices of some weird seed-infested Dutch cheese back to his place.
The spoof starred Damon, Algis Budrys, and Ted Cogswell, among others.
Jelly and Percy were playing a gambling game called Spoof, which involved guessing how many coins the other player held in a closed fist.
SMB file and print server protocols used by NT are harder to spoof than the NFS implementation on Unix systems.
By spoofing their hardware, Klimov's natural skill allowed him to clean them out when they bet on what they thought was a sure thing.
It immediately suggests a spoof: one or more of the adversary's high-performance aircraft zoom out of the Caribbean, let's say, into US airspace, penetrating, let's say, a few hundred miles up the Mississippi River until a US air defence radar locks on.