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How to pronounce “spoof”
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Pronunciation guide for spoof
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of spoof with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies
and it's a spoof of a fairy tale.
- Definition summary
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce spoof
The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies
and it's a spoof of a fairy tale.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “spoof”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889]
- (countable) A light parody. [from 1958]
- (countable, British, historical) 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.
- (uncountable) Nonsense.
- [Adjective]
- Fake, hoax.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To gently satirize. [from 1914]
- (transitive) To deceive.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.
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