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    [Verb]  | "cuff" 


    1: to furnish with a cuff

    2: handcuff


    Origin: 1693 ;

    [Verb]  | "cuff" 


    1: to strike especially with or as if with the palm of the hand : buffet

    2: fight, scuffle


    Origin: 1530 ;

     Perhaps from obsolete English, glove, from Middle English;

    [Verb]  | "shoot" | \ ˈshüt \


    1: to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger)

    2: to drive forth or cause to be driven forth by an explosion (as of a powder charge in a firearm or of ignited fuel in a rocket)

    3: to drive forth or cause to be driven forth by a sudden release of gas or air


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English sheten, shoten, shuten, from Old English scēotan; akin to Old Norse skjōta to shoot;

    [Noun]  | "cuff" | \ ˈkəf \


    1: something (such as a part of a sleeve or glove) encircling the wrist

    2: the turned-back hem of a trouser leg

    3: handcuff —usually used in plural


    Origin: 1522 ;

     Middle English coffe, cuffe mitten;

    [Noun]  | "cuff" 


    1: a blow with the hand especially when open : slap


    Origin: 1570 ;

    [Noun]  | "barrel cuff" 


    1: an unfolded cuff (as on a shirt) usually fastened by a button


    Origin: 1856 ;

    [Noun]  | "flex-cuff" | \ ˈfleks-ˌkəf \


    1: a plastic strip that can be fastened as a restraint around a person's wrists or ankles


    Origin: 1981 ;

    [Noun]  | "French cuff" 


    1: a soft double cuff that is made by turning back half of a wide cuff band and fastening with cuff links


    Origin: 1810 ;

    [Noun]  | "rotator cuff" 


    1: a supporting and strengthening structure of the shoulder joint that is made up of the capsule of the shoulder joint blended with tendons and muscles as they pass to the capsule or across it to insert on the head of the humerus


    Origin: 1944 ;

    [Verb]  | "shoot" 


    1: to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force;


      * e.g., " ... BB guns shoot small round metal pellets "





    2: to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force;


      * e.g., " ... soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly "





    3: to strike with a missile from a gun;


      * e.g., " ... hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season "



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    [Verb]  | "shoot (up)" 


    1: to rise abruptly and rapidly;


      * e.g., " ... gas prices shot up seemingly overnight "





    [Noun]  | "cuffs" 


    1: something that physically prevents free movement;


      * e.g., " ... the policeman snapped the cuffs on and led the prisoner away to the car "



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    [Noun]  | "cuff" 


    1: something that physically prevents free movement;


      * e.g., " ... the policeman snapped the cuffs on and led the prisoner away to the car "



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    [Noun]  | "cuff" 


    1: a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument;


      * e.g., " ... the mama cat would give her kittens a cuff with a paw whenever they played too rough "



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