buff
IPA: bˈʌf
noun
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- (color) A brownish yellow colour.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- (video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- (colloquial) The bare skin.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
- (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- A surname.
- (UK, military, mostly in plural) A member of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
- (UK, slang) A member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.
- (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”) [(historical) A piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised.]
- (slang, US, Air Force) Acronym of big ugly fat fellow (or fucker); US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.
- (numismatic slang) Clipping of Buffalo nickel.
verb
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- (video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.
- (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
- (graffiti slang) To remove a piece of graffiti by cleaning or removal, especially by a someone who is not a graffiti writer.
- To strike.
- (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter
adjective
- (color) Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
- (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular.
- (slang) Physically attractive.
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Examples of "buff" in Sentences
- The students are buff with chocolates.
- The breast and neck of the female are buff.
- The rump is dull chestnut and the throat is buff.
- The belly is buff with brown barring on the flanks.
- There is also a buff patch on the side of the neck.
- The cocoon is buff and spun among debris on the ground.
- Buff and blue are the colors of the Quartermaster Corps.
- The buff area on the north margin is the Lake Nipigon area.
- The American Buff Goose is a breed of goose in the Medium Class.
- Colonial blue and buff were suggested by the flag of the state of Delaware.
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