[Ads-l] Antedating of "Spoof"

[Mark Mandel]

What does it mean here? AFAIK, the modern senses of *spoof* don't include a
game.

Mark Mandel

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 4:55 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> spoof (OED 1884 [13 Dec.])
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> 1884 _Sporting Times_ 2 Aug. 5/1 (British Newspaper Archive)  On last
> Tuesday, next to the Stakes, the event of the day was Captain Valentine
> playing Spoof with Morey and Janey.  It wasn't played according to the
> strict rules of the game, and would have made such keen professors of the
> art as Arthur Roberts and Alf Saville weep, but the Captain won the
> midshipmen's caps and all the gold buttons.
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