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
Lawrence was also a longtime pal of Frank Sinatra; their friendship was spoofed in a beloved Saturday Night Live sketch, where Mike Myers portrayed Lawrence to Phil Hartman’s Sinatra.—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024 This is also not the first time Kramer has used AI to spoof a politician’s voice.—Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024 Ozon goes back almost 100 years to spoof #MeToo audacity — whether the Christine Blasey Ford accusations, the Harvey Weinstein trials, or the current persecution of actor Gérard Depardieu in France.—Armond White, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined BofA Securities $24 million for more than 700 instances of spoofing through two former traders.—Denny Jacob, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023 Aside from spoofing serial numbers, the two men used various aliases to cover their tracks.—Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024 Recently a robocall spoofing Biden’s voice was deployed to try and influence Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2024 So this short is spoofing his truth telling and tics from that viral episode, which still has called out figures like Tiffany Haddish and Ice Cube reacting.—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2024 Further, the robocalls illegally spoofed their caller ID to appear to come from a phone number belonging to a former New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair.—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Noun
In this slapstick spoof of the Western genre, a group of rival forces all fight to find $50,000 that’s allegedly buried in a rural meadow.—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024 Neil Young has appeared alongside a Fallon spoof of himself.—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024 The label shown in the post is a fabrication created in 2018 by a satirist who produces spoof packages for food products and posts photos of them on social media.—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 Tech experts say that as A.I. tools become more accessible and easier to use, audio spoofs and videos with realistic avatars could be created in mere minutes.—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024 Parodying the recent popular TikTok trend, in which women ask the men in their lives how often the Roman Empire invades their brains, the spoof opens with Momoa lost in reflection at the edge of his bed before his partner (Ego Nwodim) asks what’s on his mind.—Shania Russell, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2023 Simon cast her as Peter Falk’s secretary in his 1978 Bogart spoof, The Cheap Detective, and Carr signed her for Grease.—Sue Reilly, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024 The episode was a major success, giving us shot-for-shot spoofs of certain scenes in A New Hope while answering the age-old question: How would Peter Griffin have handled things differently than Han Solo?—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2023 But this is no sloppy, bulldozing-through-the-classics spoof.—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Spoof, a hoaxing game invented by Arthur Roberts †1933 English comedian
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