spoofs

Noun

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

   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.

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