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plural of spoof
as in parodies
a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spoof
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Recent Examples of spoofs
Noun
Today, Neeson is doing action spoofs (thank God), and even the John Wick series has run its course. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoofs
Noun
  • Kaufman and Herz co-founded Troma Entertainment in 1974, which has produced or distributed more than 1,000 low-budget parodies in the past five decades, including the original Toxic Avenger movie in 1984.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • South Park, formerly the edgelord-iest of edgelord TV, continues to barrel through parodies of the current conservative Zeitgeist.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
  • After being told that Dawn is dead, Gaal mocks Demerzel for pretending to grieve, which angers the robot.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The interference has included both jamming—overpowering communications with strong radio signals—and spoofing, which tricks receivers into misreading their location or even the time.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Although they are born fairly helpless, infants have a few survival tricks up their swaddles.
    Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • His rhetoric occasionally imitates Trump when talking about China and the World Trade Organization.
    Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Spoofs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoofs. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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