Definitions for Buffalo

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Buffalo buf·fa·lo

Spelling: [buhf-uh-loh]

IPA: /ˈbʌf əˌloʊ/

Buffalo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in Buffalo (abfflou).

Definitions for Buffalo

noun

1. any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
2. buffalo robe.
3. a buffalofish.
4. a shuffling tap-dance step.
5. a port in W New York, on Lake Erie.

verb (used with object)

1. to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify:
2. to impress or intimidate by a display of power, importance, etc.:

Origin of Buffalo

1535-45, Americanism; earlier bufalo Portuguese (now bufaro) Late Latin būfalus, variant of Latin būbalus bubal

Examples for Buffalo

A remarkable snowstorm plowed through buffalo, New York on Tuesday.

But the buffalo had come south that winter for the early grass.

They asked the director of the buffalo Zoo for some wallaby hair.

"That is the Pawnees, singing their travel song," said the buffalo Chief.

buffalo ranked tenth in the nation, while Detroit and Pittsburgh ranked twelth and thirteenth, respectively.

You were arrested in buffalo, convicted, and served your stretch.

My friend uses no water—you ought to have seen his bill at the buffalo hotel.

In its fright, it had probably mistaken us for a band of buffalo.

buffalo has been growing again, but it does not have 370,000 millionaires like New York City has.

After he graduated high school, Stasio enrolled at the University at buffalo and entered the ROTC program.