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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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
Episode host Jon Hamm spoofed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who took on Walter Goggins’ character Rick, and was shown with Wood’s character Chelsea, who was played by Sarah Sherman in the sketch.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
After attending the prestigious Juilliard School for drama, Kilmer starred in the spy movie spoof Top Secret! and the college comedy Real Genius before appearing opposite Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, playing Maverick’s rival Iceman.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Verb
This was the second week in a row that the show spoofed Trump’s tariff, as Johnson appeared in the opener last week to satirize the president’s rollout of the new policy.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
Episode host Jon Hamm spoofed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who took on Walter Goggins’ character Rick, and was shown with Wood’s character Chelsea, who was played by Sarah Sherman in the sketch.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
The suspects are using a spoof number and identifying themselves as Officers from the Peoria Police Department.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
After attending the prestigious Juilliard School for drama, Kilmer starred in the spy movie spoof Top Secret! and the college comedy Real Genius before appearing opposite Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, playing Maverick’s rival Iceman.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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