Meaning of sluff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
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2. Acronym of Short Little Ugly Fat Fellow (or Fucker), US Airforce nickname for the A-7 bomber.
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3. Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
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4. An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

Examples

“That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.”

“This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.”

“The Scouts learned from expert Keith Burke that snow avalanches come in different forms. A powder or "sluff" avalanche starts at a single point and fans out as surface snow slides downhill. These avalanches are not as violent as slab avalanches. Slab avalanches are very dangerous. They occur when a whole hillside of snow breaks loose in a giant slab, which then breaks into snow blocks that tumble downhill faster and faster.”

“At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.”

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