spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
Verb
spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Noun
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
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Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
This authentication ensures the caller ID that consumers see is not illegally spoofed.
—Peter Ford, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Olive Sturgess, who appeared on about two dozen TV Westerns and got to act alongside Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Jack Nicholson in the Roger Corman 1963 cult horror spoof The Raven, died Feb. 19, her family announced.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The threats include foreign governments and hackers jamming GPS signals or even spoofing them, which can produce a false location and send cars, ships, and planes to the wrong location.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
This authentication ensures the caller ID that consumers see is not illegally spoofed.
—Peter Ford, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
The actor, who originally starred on SNL from 1989 to 1995, appeared as the tech billionaire — and head of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — in a spoof of Trump’s heated Feb. 28 White House exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Olive Sturgess, who appeared on about two dozen TV Westerns and got to act alongside Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Jack Nicholson in the Roger Corman 1963 cult horror spoof The Raven, died Feb. 19, her family announced.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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