spoof

Pronunciation: /spuːf/

The English word “spoof” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.
A light parody.
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.
Nonsense.
A constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.
Semen.

To gently satirize.
To deceive.
To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.
To ejaculate, to come.

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

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