Definitions for buffalos

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buffalos buf·fa·lo

Spelling: [buhf-uh-loh]

IPA: /ˈbʌf əˌloʊ/

Buffalos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in buffalos (abfflosu).

Definitions for buffalos

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 buffalos

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

Examples for buffalos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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