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The word is spelled kayfabe. It refers to the professional wrestling practice of maintaining the illusion that staged events, storylines, and characters are real. It can also refer to the broader concept of pretending something is genuine when it is not. 

Elaboration:

• In Professional Wrestling:Kayfabe is the code of secrecy and performance that wrestling maintains, where wrestlers act as if their rivalries, injuries, and matches are genuine, even though they are scripted. 
• Beyond Wrestling:The term has also been used in other contexts to describe the act of maintaining a pretense of reality, even when it’s known to be a fiction. 
• Breaking Kayfabe:When a wrestler publicly acknowledges the scripted nature of wrestling, it’s called “breaking kayfabe”. 
• Etymology:The origin of the word is uncertain, but it is believed to be derived from carnival slang or pig Latin. 
• Examples:A wrestler refusing to break character backstage or a company releasing behind-the-scenes footage that reveals the scripted nature of wrestling could both be examples of breaking kayfabe, according to a YouTube video. 

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