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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;

    [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 ;

    [Phrase]  | "shoot one's cuffs" 


    1: to tug one's shirt cuffs below those of one's coat

    [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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    [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 "





     [ "cuffs" ]

    1: Things people on the television series Cops are not good at breaking.

      * e.g.,  ... "I can break these cuffs." 

     [ "cuffs" ]

    1: what you would call a crazed postman, who joins the marines to kill people. warning signs of your friends becoming "cuffs": they only leave the couch to piss or drink.

      * e.g.,  ... the mail man came by the other day, he was mumbling to himself and smelled like booze. i bet hes gonna go cuffs one of these days. 


     [ "cuffs" ]

    2:  they have people deliver their laundry saying its from the "Mailman"


     [ "cuffs" ]

    3:  they tell you they want to join the marines to kill people


     [ "cuffs" ]

    4:  the couch they live on smells like stale urine and Dorito's

     [ "Cuff" ]

    1: When you cuff someone, it means that you will make the person be your girlfriend/boyfriend and not let anyone else date them.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: Aye, are you gonna cuff Cloe? 

     [ "Cuff" ]

    1: Cuff is the slang term for being tied down into a relationship & telling the whole word that he or she is yours.

      * e.g.,  ... Brett: Dude remember Kylie Smith 

     [ "cuff" ]

    1: to date someone or make them your boyfriend/girlfriend.

      * e.g.,  ... I want to cuff that girl. 

     [ "On the cuff" ]

    1: To give to someone in exchange for an agreement of later payment, sometimes with a rate of interest attached.

      * e.g.,  ... Carlos got his ball of crack on the cuff because his dealer knew him to be such a faithful junkie. 

     [ "On the cuff" ]

    1: (To give something) on credit

      * e.g.,  ... I helped him clean up the shop, so the mechanic gave me an oil change on the cuff. 

     [ "Cuff" ]

    1: To protect or overprotect a boy/girlfried in fear that he/she might find interest in someone else. Another way of cuffing is announcing a relationship loudly around a large crowd rather verbally or physically. Think of it as a relationship leash, or handcuffs (thats what it is originated from anyway)

      * e.g.,  ... That dude gets any girl he wants in the club. You Better cuff yo girl... 

     [ "Cuffe" ]

    1: Irish slang for Someone who does not pay their staff or debts and keeps closing down businesses and moving from town to town. Liar, cheat, conman, gangster

      * e.g.,  ... I'm not buying anything off him hes a pure cuffe, he never got paid the guy he was working for was a pure cuffe 

     [ "cuff" ]

    1: To hold someone down.. Make them your main squeeze.. Someone you can be down for.. someone who can be down for you..

      * e.g.,  ... I ain't cuffin' no hoes.. 


     [ "cuff" ]

    2: For males: a ride or die chick.. Your bottom bitch..


     [ "cuff" ]

    3: For females: that man in your life that knows how to hold you down

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