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biff::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clout, lick, poke, punch, slug |
| Type of | blow |
| Has types | hook, jab, ko punch, parry, rabbit punch, sucker punch, sunday punch, knockout punch, counter, counterpunch, haymaker |
Examples of biff
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Shafiq then has a biff at a loose ball to score the first boundary of the day.
From the guardian.co.uk
Biff drives him to and from school because he is not allowed to ride the bus.
From the stltoday.com
People who biff your car in car parks and then drive off without telling you.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
Clever bowling and batting but not much biff, bang, pow for the non-purists.
From the guardian.co.uk
Biff has become wealthy and corrupted, and changed Hill Valley into a chaotic dystopia.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Carter as usual was sent into biff the ball or get out in the process.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Unix mail command BIFF was actually named after the mailman's dog.
From the newscientist.com
The mail command, BIFF, was not the name of Thompson's mailman's dog.
From the newscientist.com
The 16th BIFF in 2011 saw the festival move to a new permanent home, the Busan Cinema Center.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Pummel: strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"
- Punch: (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"
- BIFF, later sometimes B1FF, was a pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet, an early precursor to Internet forums. BIFF was created as and taken up as a satire of a partly amusing, partly annoying, mostly unwelcome intrusion into a then fairly rarefied community.
- Biff is a mail notification system for UNIX.
- Biff are British cartoonists, perhaps best known for cartoon strips appearing in The Guardian from 1985 onwards (Biff Weekend ran weekly for 20 years). Also featured on many postcards, Biff cartoons have appeared in books, Viz and, since 2001, the magazine of the Rough Guides .
- Biff is a given name or nickname, the latter often awarded based on physical stature.
- N. a crash. Synonyms: wipeout. v. "I biffed and then wiped away the blood."
- Batch Input Formatter File, a mechanism for charging DA costs to projects and crediting to departments
- A command to turn on asynchronous email notification on Unix systems. Actually named after a dog at U.C. Berkeley, who would bark when mail was delivered. (The dog belonged to Heidi Stettner, validation of this from Eric Cooper.)
