cuff
/kʌf/ · noun
Meaning
- Glove; mitten
- The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
- The end of a pants leg, folded up
- Handcuffs
- To furnish with cuffs.
- To handcuff.
- A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
- To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
- To fight; to scuffle; to box.
- To buffet.
- The scruff of the neck.
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