spoof n.1
1. a hoax, a confidence trick.
 | in Referee (London) 16 Sept. 7/2: The police may be playing a game of spoof, but the fact remains that in no suggestion made by the authorities up to the present is the slightest technical knowledge of the ‘speciality’ of the Whitechapel atrocities shown. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Jackson’ Dagonet Ditties 110: A convict, he played with his warder at spoof, / Then brained him, and made his escape through the roof. | |
| [perf. Marie Lloyd] A Bird in the Hand 🎵 We played at cards, the idea was / That there should be no ‘spoof’. | |
| Sporting Times 18 Mar. 1/1: What a game of spoof is made out of politics! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Apr. 4/8: Some unprincipled scoundrel recently rang up Detective Harry Mann, and made an appointment tb whisper something good in his eager ear. Harry kept, the appointment, . but the other party failed to eventuate. When Harry next returned home, he saw the cause of the spoof . | |
| Eng. Rev. Jan. 304: Till it occurred [...] to take into their amazing heads to find salvation in the ‘spoof’ of Matisse and Picasso. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 590: It was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly accurate gospel. | |
| Rover 13 Jan. 32: What a spoof! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Proud Highway (1997) 304: The performance was neither a joke nor a spoof. | |
| Aberdeen Eve, Exp. 30 Nov. 9/1: Tony Richardson’s glorious spoof of the American way of death. | |
| Awaydays 99: ‘I’m fucked, lar,’ I say to Danny Allen. It’s not a total spoof either. I’ve noticed lately that I get out of breath far too easily. | |
| Cartoon City 64: He figured that he might have gone too far with the gangster spoof. | |
| Eve. Herald (Dublin) 27 Mar. 29/1: Why not Fool a riend with an Easter Spoof. | |
| ‘Carny Lingo’ in http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Spoof — A small trick or gaff. |
2. money.
| Truth (Melbourne) 24 Jan. 10/3: if she wants to sport her spoof, and / Likes to part up to me [etc.]. |
In phrases
(UK prison) of an informer, looking for information.
| Letters from the Big House 27: Manifestly, being a grass, he was ‘on the spoof’. |