Meaning of Buff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of big ugly fat fellow (or fucker), US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
2. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
   countable, uncountable
3. A strike; a blow.
   obsolete
4. A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
   countable, informal, uncountable
5. A surname.
6. A member of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
   UK, plural
7. Clipping of Buffalo nickel.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
8. A member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.
   UK, slang
9. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
   countable, uncountable
10. A brownish yellow colour.
    countable, uncountable
11. A military coat made of buff leather.
    countable, uncountable
12. A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
    countable, informal, uncountable
13. An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
    countable, uncountable
14. Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
    countable, uncountable
15. The bare skin.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
16. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
    countable, uncountable
17. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]”

“1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.”

“His face changed from tan to buff.”

“A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him ; / On whoſe hard heart is button’d vp with ſteele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay worſe, a fellow all in buffe […]”

“He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.”

“I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!”

“to strip to the buff”

“To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.”

“Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.”

“2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014, Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.”

“Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.”

“A man must consider what a blind-man’s-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.”

“[…] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]”

“You will eat water buffalo meat and drink boiled water buffalo milk: buff burgers at Aunt Jane's restaurant, buff mo-mos which are the Tibetan won-tons, and buff steaks at The Globe.”

“For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […]”

“The B-52 Stratofortress is not called the Buff because it is painted a tan or dun-brown color.”

“I should note here in polite society it is considered proper to call the B-52 a BUFF for Big Ugly Fat Fella or Fellows”

“Deployed at no higher than 135 knots, the 44-foot drag chute aids in braking the BUFF.”

“There were also, however disgusting it might seem, "BUFF" drivers coming in from B-52 bombers and C-130 cargo haulers.”

“The general invited his old buddy to Barksdale to fly in the B-52 and show him just what the old BUFF could do.”

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