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That was a staggerer, and the boy followed it up while the man was dazed Punk!--biff!--two blows, one on the body and the other fairly in the eye The second blow nearly knocked the man down, and it made him as fierce as a famished tiger.

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  1. transitive verb To strike or punch.
  2. noun A blow or punch.
  3. noun Upper Midwest Variant of biffy.

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  • June 19th, 2008 at 9: 23 am can we get an actual tally on the number of nail salons operating in hoboken? and not just washington st. and then add the "day spa's" which offer the exact same thing; cheap asian labor. anyone tried counting them? biff-bee … try Jos. —  Hoboken 411
  • This is a rare intrusion of 'biff' in a contest that has seen Brash say he did not go hard at Clark in a televised debate because she was a woman. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • Except for the problem of synchronizing multiple machines, it sounds like doing twerp | grep from something biff-like might be what you want. —  The Changelog
  • About: KBiff is a KDE "biff" or new mail notification utility. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • Biffetty-biff! Gracious, how time flies, for here it is summer again and the flowers are all in bloom! —  Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From English biff, interjection, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. An imitative variant of buff and baff.
 

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