单词	spoof
释义	spoofspoof /spuːf/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINspoof Origin: 1800-1900 Invented name for a game involving deception Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES "A Five Minute Hamlet" is a very funny spoof of Shakespeare's most famous play. The film was a spoof on Hollywood cop movies. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Audiences of the time might have been forgiven for thinking the dance was a spoof. 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. The scenes between the sons, all witty repartee, came close to a spoof of stagey theatrical speech. This novel is witty, good humored, and something of a spoof. When Time Was Away appeared, Newton wrote a spoof review of it. Why travel thousands of miles to visit a spoof Paris? Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomething that makes fun of someone or something► spoof a film, book etc that makes fun of a serious type of film, book etc by copying it in a funny way: spoof on/of: · "A Five Minute Hamlet" is a very funny spoof of Shakespeare's most famous play.· The film was a spoof on Hollywood cop movies. ► send-up a performance, film, article etc that makes fun of a situation or the behaviour of a group of people by copying it in a funny way: send-up of: · His most famous movie is a hilarious send-up of life in ancient Rome. ► parody a piece of writing or music that is amusing because it makes fun of a famous piece of writing or music by clearly copying its style: · She writes enjoyable parodies in the style of 19th century romantic novels.parody of: · Tallis has written a cruel parody of Hartman's prose. ► satire a book, film, or play that criticizes something such as the government or people's behaviour by making fun of it in a clever way: · This is her first serious novel; up till now she has only written political satires.satire on: · The film is a stinging satire on American politics. a 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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