spoof

Noun (1)

spoof (countable and uncountable, plural spoofs)

1. (countable) 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’...1906, George Ade, “What One Man Picked Up in London and Sent Back to His Brother”, in In Pastures New, Toronto, Ont.: The Musson Book Company, →OCLC, pages 76–77
   1. 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.
2. (countable) 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.1999 August, Stanley Green, Elaine Schmidt, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, in Hollywood Musicals Year by Year, 2nd edition, Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN, page 177
   • 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, the Noses of Fame memorial, can be savoured over a beer at the Tattersalls Hotel on Peel Street.2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, David Leffman, Chris Scott, “New South Wales and ACT”, in The Rough Guide to Australia, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, pages 330–331

   Synonyms:

   parody, satire, send-up, sendup

3. (UK, countable, 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.
   • 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...2015, Thomas Thurnell-Read, “Drinking Games”, in Scott C. Martin, editor, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Reference, →ISBN
4. (uncountable) 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."1904, House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Sessional Papers, volume 39, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, paragraph 9,049, page 376, column 1
5. A constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.

Adjective

spoof (not comparable)

1. 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.1998, “Notes on Contributors”, in George McKay, editor, DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 300
   • 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.2004, Paul Gravett, “The All-encompassing: A Medium for Every Taste, Interest and Stage of Life”, in Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics, London: Laurence King Publishing; New York, N.Y.: Harper...

Verb (1)

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

1. (transitive) 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.1971, Harvey R. Deneroff, “Harlow, Jean”, in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S[amuel] Boyer, editors, Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, volumes II (G–O)...
   • [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 first-act finale observed a venerable revue tradition by spoofing a current hit show; From A to Z...2002, Ethan Mordden, “What’s in It for You?: The Shows of 1960”, in Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s (Golden Age of the Broadway Musical), New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan...

   Synonyms:

   send up

2. (transitive) 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.1889, Faed, [pseudonym; Arthur James Wilson], Nym [pseudonym], Duffersville: Its Cycling Chronicles and Other Sketches, Dublin: Irish Cyclist & Athlete Office; London: Iliffe and Son; Shrewsbury...
   • 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-famed Adepts of Thibet," who are there for a much-needed change, after a "3500 years' residence in...1892 August 27, “Two Penn’orth of Theosophy. (A Sketch at the Islington Arcadia.)”, in T. Taylor, editor, Punch, volume CIII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 85, column...
3. (ambitransitive) 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.
   • However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.2003, Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs”, in Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry, editors...

Noun (2)

UK/spʊf/

spoof (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
   • ‘Holy-Jesus-fuckin’-Christ! I’m comin’! I’m shootin’ me bolt! I’m gonna fill ya twat with spoof!’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 141

   Synonyms:

   spunk, spooge, cum, jizz, jizzum, jism, gism, nut, junk, semen

Verb (2)

UK/spʊf/

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

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) 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...2002, Annie Potts, “Innerspace”, in The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabulares of Heterosex, Hove, East Sussex; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (The Vocabularies...

   Synonyms:

   ejaculate