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spoof.

An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/spuːf/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

    countable
  2. An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.

    countable · uncountable
    Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now.
  3. A light parody.

    countable
  4. 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.

    UK · countable · historical
  5. Nonsense.

    uncountable
  6. A constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

adj/spuːf/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. Fake, hoax.

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

verb/spuːf/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. To gently satirize.

    transitive
  2. To deceive.

    transitive
  3. To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.

    ambitransitive
    The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.
Where this word comes from

Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

noun/spʊf/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. Semen.

    Australia · New-Zealand · slang · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.

verb/spʊf/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. To ejaculate, to come.

    Australia · New-Zealand · slang
Where this word comes from

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.

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