Definitions for cuff

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cuff cuff

Spelling: [kuhf]

IPA: /kʌf/

Cuff is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in cuff (cffu).

Definitions for cuff

noun

1. a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
2. a turned-up fold, as at the bottom of a trouser leg.
3. the part of a gauntlet or long glove that extends over the wrist.
4. a separate or detachable band or piece of fabric worn about the wrist, inside or outside of the sleeve.
5. an elasticized, ribbed, or reinforced band at the top of a sock or stocking.
6. a band of leather or other material, wider than a collar, sewed around the outside of the top of a shoe or boot to serve as a trimming or finish.
7. a handcuff.
8. Anatomy. a bandlike muscle or group of muscles encircling a body part.
9. Furniture. a horizontal strip of veneer used as an ornament on a leg.
10. Medicine/Medical. an inflatable wrap placed around the upper arm and used in conjunction with a device for recording blood pressure.
11. a blow with the fist or the open hand; buffet.

Idioms

1. off the cuff, Informal. extemporaneously; on the spur of the moment. unofficially or informally:
2. on the cuff, Slang. with the promise of future payment; on credit. without charge; with no payment expected:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a cuff or cuffs on:
2. to put handcuffs on.
3. to strike with the open hand; beat; buffet.

Origin of cuff

1350-1400; Middle English cuffe mitten; perhaps akin to Old English cuffie cap Medieval Latin cuphia coif¹

Examples for cuff

His eyes shone, as he hid the little, sharp knife up his cuff.

Of course, Coakley spoke off the cuff and had no one else to blame.

She escaped the seeming trap just like a wrist slipping from a cuff.

Then it was that no cuff nor sharp word was necessary before they could pat him.

And, again, I now confess, I had an occasional Bourbon and stoogie on the cuff.

If I could do that off the cuff I would be WAAY more fun at parties!

I am starting on a hunt in darkest Deanery for my cuff links.

The blacksmith talked, and Yates listened, putting now and then a mark on his cuff.

But with the master the cuff was always too light to hurt the flesh.

They create those blouses a lot of times, where they will add a bow or take fabric from another shirt to create the cuff.