Usually means: Deceptive or misleading show, facade.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bluff, bluff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bluff, bluff, bluff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bluff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bluff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bluff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bluff, bluff: Wordnik
  7. bluff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bluff, bluff: Wiktionary
  9. bluff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bluff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bluff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bluff, bluff: Dictionary.com
  13. bluff (n), bluff (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bluff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bluff (Pittsburgh), Bluff (magazine), Bluff (poker), Bluff, The Bluff (Atlanta), The Bluff (Cayman Islands), The Bluff (Ypres), The Bluff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bluff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bluff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bluff: Rhymezone
  19. Bluff (m), bluff, bluff, bluff (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bluff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BLUFF: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Bluff: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. bluff: Free Dictionary
  24. bluff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. bluff: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bluff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bluff (disambiguation), Bluff (poker), bluff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bluff (disambiguation), bluff: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bluff: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bluff, bluff, bluff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Bluff: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. The Bluff, bluff: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bluff: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bluff: Gambling Glossary
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
noun:  (poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
noun:  (US, dated) The card game poker.
noun:  One who bluffs; a bluffer.
noun:  (slang, dated) An excuse.
verb:  (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
verb:  (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage.
verb:  To take advantage by bluffing.
verb:  (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
noun:  A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
noun:  (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
adjective:  Having a broad, flattened front.
adjective:  Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
adjective:  Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
adjective:  Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.
verb:  To fluff, puff or swell up.
noun:  A town in New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.

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