Meaning of no duff | Babel Free

Definitions

Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, Singapore, UK, slang

Equivalents

Examples

““Sunray, No Duff, No Duff, No Duff. We need a medic, we’ve got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over.” All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ‘No Duff.’ It was the signal for a medical emergency.”

““Someone grabbed me from behind and said ‘No duff,’ which means this is real,” said LCdr. Wong. “That’s what everybody heard, ‘Plane crash, 737,’ and all of us started running to our posts,” he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene.”

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