Usually means: Enhance strength, ability, or appearance.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. buff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buff, buff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buff, buff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buff, buff: Wordnik
  7. buff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BUFF, Buff, buff: Wiktionary
  9. buff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buff, buff: Dictionary.com
  13. buff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BUFF (disambiguation), BUFF, Buff (color), Buff (colour), Buff (computer gaming), Buff (disambiguation), Buff (superheroine), Buff (turkey), Buff (video gaming), Buff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buff: Rhymezone
  19. buff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Buff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. buff: Free Dictionary
  23. buff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. buff: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Buff: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BUFF (disambiguation), buff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. buff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BUFF: Acronym Finder
  2. buff: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. buff: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. buff, buff, buff, buff, buff, buff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. B.U.F.F, B.U.F.F, buff: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See buffed as well.)

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noun:  Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
noun:  A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
noun:  A brownish yellow colour.
noun:  A military coat made of buff leather.
noun:  (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
noun:  (video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
noun:  (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
noun:  (colloquial) The bare skin.
noun:  The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
noun:  Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
adjective:  Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
adjective:  (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular.
adjective:  (MLE slang) Physically attractive.
verb:  To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
verb:  (video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.
verb:  (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
verb:  (graffiti slang) To remove a piece of graffiti by cleaning or removal, especially by a someone who is not a graffiti writer.
verb:  To strike.
noun:  (obsolete) A strike; a blow.
verb:  (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter
noun:  (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (UK, military, mostly in plural) A member of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
noun:  (UK, slang) A member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.
noun:  (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”) [(historical) A piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised.]
noun:  (slang, US, Air Force) Acronym of big ugly fat fellow (or fucker); US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.
noun:  (numismatic slang) Clipping of Buffalo nickel.

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