Usually means: Inhale or blow out air.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. puff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. puff, puff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. puff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Puff, puff: Wordnik
  7. puff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. puff: Wiktionary
  9. puff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. puff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. puff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. puff: Dictionary.com
  13. puff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. puff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Puff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Puff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. puff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. puff: Rhymezone
  19. puff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. puff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PUFF: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Puff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. puff: Free Dictionary
  24. puff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Puff, puff: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. puff: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. puff: Legal dictionary
  3. puff: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. puff: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. puff: CCI Computer
  3. Puff (chromosomal), puff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Puff (chromosomal), puff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUFF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. puff: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Puff: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. puff, puff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. puff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Puff: Backgammon

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Puff: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
noun:  (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
noun:  (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
noun:  (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
noun:  (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
noun:  A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
noun:  (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
noun:  A puffball.
noun:  A powder puff.
noun:  (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.
noun:  (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
noun:  (slang, dated, UK) Life.
noun:  (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
verb:  (intransitive) To pant.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
verb:  To blow as an expression of scorn.
verb:  To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
verb:  To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
verb:  To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
verb:  To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
verb:  To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
verb:  To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
verb:  To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

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