spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
Synonyms
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
Verb
spoofed 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
Recent Examples on the Web
Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
Patel noted the phone call spoofed Apple’s official support line number at 1-800-275-2273.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
The Kansas City Chiefs just dropped a new post-season promotional trailer that spoofs Tyler Hynes and Janel Parrish’s Hallmark rom-coms — and one of its cameos has some fans speculating that it was also inspired by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance.
—Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
By spoofing the identity of a carrier—the companies that employ truck drivers to pick up goods—fraudsters can trick brokers who arrange those deals into handing over large amounts of cargo.
—Andy Greenberg Andrew Couts, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
Here are some tips from Anand and the FBI to protect yourself:
Phone numbers can easily be faked or spoofed.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
Some skeptics believe that one of the technologies that helps explain more recent UFO sightings is the field of radar spoofing.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
The practice is common, but can be used to conceal a cargo’s origin, especially when used with spoofing.
—Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
As a result, Ukrainian drone operators are experimenting with ways to overcome jamming and spoofing.
—Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
The clip then cut to a trailer for a new episode of EM, a spoof of ER starring Eminem.
—EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
Great shows are all over From a crazy-goofy spoof of Alfred Hitchcock to dance troupe Robert Moses KIN’s take on censorship, there are a lot of great shows and concerts to catch this weekend.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
Hitler spoofs began as early as the 1940s, with Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, and continued in films such as The Producers, Look Who’s Back, and Jojo Rabbit.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
In a spoof ad, Gillis pitched the betting platform Rock Bottom Kings, which instead of sports, allows users to bet on how low their friends’ lives could sink.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2024
Since the show, up-and-coming makeup artists– including Mei Pang, Dee Carrion, and even Bratz dolls– have recreated the look from spoofs leaking from backstage.
—Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
Love isn't as easy for Hynes' character Ben in the Chiefs' new spoof film Falling for Football, however.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
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
Verb
In 2022 and 2023, EASA, warned about an increase in reports of GPS spoofing and jamming incidents taking place in areas surrounding Russia, including in Finland, around the Black Sea and in the Baltic Sea area, according to the Wall Street Journal.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
Patel noted the phone call spoofed Apple’s official support line number at 1-800-275-2273.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
The Kansas City Chiefs just dropped a new post-season promotional trailer that spoofs Tyler Hynes and Janel Parrish’s Hallmark rom-coms — and one of its cameos has some fans speculating that it was also inspired by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance.
—Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
By spoofing the identity of a carrier—the companies that employ truck drivers to pick up goods—fraudsters can trick brokers who arrange those deals into handing over large amounts of cargo.
—Andy Greenberg Andrew Couts, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
Here are some tips from Anand and the FBI to protect yourself:
Phone numbers can easily be faked or spoofed.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
Some skeptics believe that one of the technologies that helps explain more recent UFO sightings is the field of radar spoofing.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
The practice is common, but can be used to conceal a cargo’s origin, especially when used with spoofing.
—Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
As a result, Ukrainian drone operators are experimenting with ways to overcome jamming and spoofing.
—Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
Noun
Saturday Night Live’s spoof of reality dating shows in 2021 was called What’s Your Type?; the joke, in large part, was that the bachelorette was inexplicably but consistently into men who were plainly terrible.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
The clip then cut to a trailer for a new episode of EM, a spoof of ER starring Eminem.
—EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
Great shows are all over From a crazy-goofy spoof of Alfred Hitchcock to dance troupe Robert Moses KIN’s take on censorship, there are a lot of great shows and concerts to catch this weekend.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
Hitler spoofs began as early as the 1940s, with Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, and continued in films such as The Producers, Look Who’s Back, and Jojo Rabbit.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
In a spoof ad, Gillis pitched the betting platform Rock Bottom Kings, which instead of sports, allows users to bet on how low their friends’ lives could sink.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2024
Since the show, up-and-coming makeup artists– including Mei Pang, Dee Carrion, and even Bratz dolls– have recreated the look from spoofs leaking from backstage.
—Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
Love isn't as easy for Hynes' character Ben in the Chiefs' new spoof film Falling for Football, however.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
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
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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: to make good-natured fun of
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