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
In addition, Meadowlands can spoof enemy assets by imitating the specific, complex waveforms used by military and commercial satellite networks.—
David Szondy
july 06,
New Atlas,
7 July 2026 The Orlan-10 can carry payloads such as a module for spoofing signals from GPS and other global navigation satellite systems, along with a communications network monitoring module and various optical and thermal sensors.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2026
Noun
The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026 But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for spoof
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Spoof, a hoaxing game invented by Arthur Roberts †1933 English comedian