cheat vs spoof

cheat

verb
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. 

  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

noun
  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 

  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. 

  • Someone who cheats. 

  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. 

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

spoof

verb
  • To deceive. 

  • To falsify. 

  • To gently satirize. 

  • To ejaculate, to come. 

adj
  • Fake, hoax. 

noun
  • A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. 

  • A light parody. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. 

  • Semen. 

How often have the words cheat and spoof occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )