Meaning of Buffalo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A placename
2. A major city, the county seat of Erie County, New York, USA; very near Niagara Falls.
3. An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
4. A number of other places in the United States, including:
5. A small city in Scott County, Iowa.
6. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
7. A city, the county seat of Wright County, Minnesota.
8. Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
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9. A city, the county seat of Dallas County, Missouri.
10. The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
11. A town, the county seat of Harper County, Oklahoma.
12. A nickel.
    US, slang
13. A census-designated place in Union County, South Carolina.
14. A looter during the Civil War.
    US, historical, slang
15. A town, the county seat of Harding County, South Dakota.
16. A large or stupid person.
    derogatory, slang
17. A small city in Leon County, Texas.
18. An obese person, usually a woman.
    derogatory, slang
19. A town in Putnam County, West Virginia.
20. A black male.
    derogatory, offensive, slang
21. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, not to be confused with Buffalo City in the same county.
22. Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).
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23. A town in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
24. A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Wyoming.
25. A number of townships, including in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Buffalo Township.
26. A number of places in South Africa.
27. A town in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
28. Ellipsis of Buffalo City.
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29. Ellipsis of Buffalo County.
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30. Ellipsis of Buffalo River.
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31. Ellipsis of Buffalo Township.
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Examples

“"It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die."”

“And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.”

“From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures / Circling beneath the dark clouds / Looking for the rain / Well, they've been looking for the rain”

“The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.”

“And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that sought to “ethnically replace my own people.””

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