spoof
n : a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous
way [syn: parody, lampoon, sendup, mockery, takeoff,
burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
v : make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn:
burlesque, parody]
WordNet (r) 2.0
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoof":
bamboozle, befool, cheat, chicane, deceit, deception, fake,
fake out, fakement, flam, flimflam, fool, hoax, hoodwink, humbug,
kid, phony, put one on, put-on, rip-off, sell, sham, trick
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
spoof vi. To capture, alter, and retransmit a communication stream in a
way that misleads the recipient. As used by hackers, refers especially
to altering TCP/IP packet source addresses or other packet-header data
in order to masquerade as a trusted machine. This term has become very
widespread and is borderline techspeak.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
spoof
See spoofing.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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