From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspoofspoof /spuːf/ noun [countable] MAKE FUN OFa funny book, play, or film that copies something serious or important and makes it seem silly → take-offspoof of/on The play is a spoof on Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Julius Caesar’. a spoof documentary —spoof verb [transitive]
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spoof• This novel is witty, good humored, and something of a spoof.• The scenes between the sons, all witty repartee, came close to a spoof of stagey theatrical speech.• Why travel thousands of miles to visit a spoof Paris?• Audiences of the time might have been forgiven for thinking the dance was a spoof.• The film was a spoof on Hollywood cop movies.• When Time Was Away appeared, Newton wrote a spoof review of it.• "A Five Minute Hamlet" is a very funny spoof of Shakespeare's most famous play.• On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight.• That haunted offspring turns out to be none other than large Lawrence, in this raucous spoof of trash television.• The best of Mel Brooks' recent spoofs.spoof of/on• "Austin Powers" is a spoof on spy films of the '60s.• The scenes between the sons, all witty repartee, came close to a spoof of stagey theatrical speech.• That haunted offspring turns out to be none other than large Lawrence, in this raucous spoof of trash television.Origin spoof (1800-1900) Invented name for a game involving deception 