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Definition buff

Etymology 1

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
3. A brownish yellow colour.
4. A military coat made of buff leather.
5. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
6. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
7. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
8. The bare skin.
9. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
10. A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.

Adjective

buff (comparative buffer or more buff, superlative buffest or most buff)

1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
2. (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)
3. (slang) Physically attractive.

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
2. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.
3. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.

Etymology 2

Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

1. To strike.

Noun

buff (plural buffs)

1. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.

Etymology 3

Clipping of buffalo.

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

1. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.

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