From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spoof
n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's
style, usually in a humorous way [syn: {parody}, {lampoon},
{spoof}, {sendup}, {mockery}, {takeoff}, {burlesque},
{travesty}, {charade}, {pasquinade}, {put-on}]
v 1: make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn:
{spoof}, {burlesque}, {parody}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
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. Interestingly, it was already in use in its modern
sense more than a century ago among Victorian telegraphers; it shows up in
Kipling.
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