spoofing

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)...

   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...
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.

Verb (2)

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

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