buff
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Is buff a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.Examples: "He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war."Synonyms: enthusiast, aficionado, admirer, aficionado, buff, connoisseur, enthusiast, devoteecountableinformaluncountable
2. (video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.Examples: "I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!"Synonyms: revampAntonyms: debuff, nerfcountableuncountable
3. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.countableuncountable
4. (colloquial) The bare skin.Examples: "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."colloquialcountableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (originally bodybuilding, colloquial) Unusually muscular.Examples: "The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl."Synonyms: buffed, buffed outcolloquial
2. (MLE slang) Physically attractive.Examples: "That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model."Multicultural-London-Englishslang
verb (English)
1. (video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.Examples: "The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon."; "I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update."Antonyms: debuff, nerf
2. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.Examples: ""Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back."; "The implication of such an action is an invitation to buff the chart. The medical records department could have prevented the falsification by sending a copy of the chart to the attorney at the same time that they notified the hospital physician of the attorney's request for the chart."
3. (graffiti slang) To remove graffiti, particularly by someone who is not a graffiti writer.slang
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A strike; a blow.Examples: "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."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutterdialectalobsolete
noun (English)
1. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.Examples: "[…] 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."countableinformaluncountable
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