Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nonsense; tomfoolery.
- n. A hoax.
- n. A gentle satirical imitation; a light parody.
- v. To deceive.
- v. To do a spoof of; satirize gently.
Wiktionary
- n. A hoax.
- n. A light parody.
- n. Nonsense.
- n. UK 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.
- adj. Fake.
- v. transitive To gently satirize.
- v. transitive To deceive.
- v. transitive, computing To falsify.
- n. Australia, New Zealand, slang Semen.
- v. Australia, New Zealand, slang To ejaculate, to come.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a parody of
- n. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- After Spoof, name of a game invented by Arthur Roberts (1852-1933), British comedian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“- The Telegraph (UK) You convince yourself, for a while, that a clever post-modern spoof is under way.”
“An homage or even a spoof is one thing, but using character designs or layouts without credit go way beyond that.”
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“He posted the link to this spoof from the recently released trailer for “Eclipse”.”
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“I think the eviliguanaproduction spoof is the best, but this one was graceful and funny”
“The spoof is part of their Mort Mort Feingold Accountant to the Stars skit.”
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“The current spoof films center more around fart jokes and modern references to pop culture and with each lame ass spoof, is another nail in the coffin.”
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“Have we gotten to the point where lame jokes in spoof movies are acceptable because the only other choice is intelligence-insulting jokes in parody movies?”
“Enjoy this 4 minute spoof from the makers of American Drug War.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spoof’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 167 more...
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Off label definitions
Commonly used words with multiple meanings, the others being obscure or rarely used. Good to know for that dang analogy exam.
marquise, navette, indorse, crew, defile, poop, straiten, heckle, frit, notate, oblate, hotspur and 16 more...
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Verbages
puddle, kowtow, tessellate, defalcate, embezzle, enkindle, ablate, frivol, moonlight, tongue-tie, gobble, pettifog and 58 more...
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Favorites
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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nominative case collection
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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ikepela's Words
quixotic, tempestuous, myriad, bubble, chevalier, archaic, soma, springs, strokes, snicker, lunacy, electricityscape and 110 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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film / theatre vocab
feature film, grip, dolly, skit, sketch, footage, blockbuster, flick, klieg light, double bill, double feature, newsreel and 4 more...
Tweets
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