spoof
to trick
TRANSLATION
spoof = täuschen, reinlegen; eine Parodie, eine Veräppelung --- How important is this English word? spoof: 16,500,000 Google Hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A video SPOOF making fun of Al Gore and global warming recently ran on the popular website YouTube.com. One newspaper suspects a Republican public relations firm produced the video.
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spoof
noun
- An amusing and ridiculous piece of writing, music, theatre, etc. that copies the style of an original work.
verb
To try to make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Named after Spoof, a nonsense and trickery game invented by British comedian Arthur Roberts (1852-1933).
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.)
Spoofing is also the creation of TCP/IP packets using somebody else's IP address. A spoofed website is a bogus (gefälscht) site intended to trick users into entering personal information such as credit card numbers.
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SYNONYMS
deceit, fake, joke, parody, phoney, satire, quip, sham, lampoon, farce
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“We performed a spoof of a typical board meeting in honour of our retiring CEO. It got plenty of laughs.”
noun
- An amusing and ridiculous piece of writing, music, theatre, etc. that copies the style of an original work.
verb
To try to make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Named after Spoof, a nonsense and trickery game invented by British comedian Arthur Roberts (1852-1933).
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.)
Spoofing is also the creation of TCP/IP packets using somebody else's IP address. A spoofed website is a bogus (gefälscht) site intended to trick users into entering personal information such as credit card numbers.
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SYNONYMS
deceit, fake, joke, parody, phoney, satire, quip, sham, lampoon, farce
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We performed a spoof of a typical board meeting in honour of our retiring CEO. It got plenty of laughs.”
