Verbspoofed 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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Verb
Fins open at Indy, which deleted a schedule-release video spoofing Tyreek Hill’s ‘24 police matter by depicting him as a dolphin being chased by the Coast Guard.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 18 May 2025 Scammers may spoof the phone number of government agencies, foreign embassies, or universities.—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Noun
Other people and publications dug the Severance spoof — as of this writing, the Ravens’ reveal video had 9,000 likes on X and nearly 3,000 on YouTube (with 70,000 views).—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025 However, fans were led to believe the spoof was still bothering her as she was photographed crying in London on Monday.—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spoof
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Spoof, a hoaxing game invented by Arthur Roberts †1933 English comedian
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