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Noun: spoof spoof Usage: informal
- A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- parody, lampoon, sendup [informal], send-up [informal], mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on [N. Amer, informal] - Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on [N. Amer, informal] Verb: spoof spoof Usage: informal
- Make a parody of
"The students spoofed the teachers"; - burlesque, parody - Tamper, with the purpose of deception
"spoof the figures"; - fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook [informal], wangle [informal], misrepresent
Derived forms: spoofed, spoofing, spoofs Type of: caricature, cheat, chicane, chicanery, chisel [informal], guile, imitation, impersonation, mock, shenanigan, trickery, wile Encyclopedia: Spoof |