spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
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
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Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
The attacker spoofs the sender IP of the malicious packets to give the appearance they’re being delivered by the final target.
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
Jack Smart, People.com, 18 June 2025
Other people and publications dug the Severance spoof — as of this writing, the Ravens’ reveal video had 9,000 likes on X and nearly 3,000 on YouTube (with 70,000 views).
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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Verb
Increasingly, in an age of cyber warfare, there’s also the potential danger of GPS jamming or spoofing around combat zones — with satellite navigation systems at risk of being tricked into showing false locations.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
The attacker spoofs the sender IP of the malicious packets to give the appearance they’re being delivered by the final target.
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
Noun
In The Naked Gun, a sequel-reboot to the crime spoofs of the 1980s and ’90s starring Leslie Nielsen, Anderson plays femme fatale Beth.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 18 June 2025
Other people and publications dug the Severance spoof — as of this writing, the Ravens’ reveal video had 9,000 likes on X and nearly 3,000 on YouTube (with 70,000 views).
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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