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buff
Pronunciation: (buf), [key]—
n.
1. a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface, originally made from buffalo skin but later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches, etc.
2. a brownish-yellow color; tan.
3. a buff stick or buff wheel.
4. a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject:
Civil War buffs avidly read the new biography of Grant.
5. Informal.the bare skin:
in the buff.
6. Also called
buffcoat. a thick, short coat of buffalo leather, worn esp. by English soldiers and American colonists in the 17th century.
7. Informal.a buffalo.
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adj.
1. having the color of buff.
2. made of buff leather.
3. Slang.physically attractive; muscular.
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v.t.
1. to clean or polish (metal) or give a grainless finish of high luster to (plated surfaces) with or as if with a buff stick or buff wheel.
2. to polish or shine, esp. with a buffer:
to buff shoes.
3. to dye or stain in a buff color.
buff
Pronunciation: (buf), [key]—
v.t.
to reduce or deaden the force of; act as a buffer.
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n.
Chiefly Brit. Dial.a blow; slap.
buff
Pronunciation: (buf), [key]—
n.
buffe.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
