buffalo

1. (transitive) To hunt buffalo.transitive

2. (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.Examples: "I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die."; "The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert."; "He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world."Synonyms: cow, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, browbeat, cow, dastardize, dauntUSslangtransitive

3. (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.Examples: "Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious."; "He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line."archaictransitive