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Biff   /bɪf/   Listen
Biff

noun
1.
(boxing) a blow with the fist.  Synonyms: clout, lick, poke, punch, slug.
verb
1.
Strike, usually with the fist.  Synonyms: pommel, pummel.






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"Biff" Quotes from Famous Books



... to say certain members of that body, had got it into their heads that to send round a lot of Sir Douglas Haig's troops (who were pretty well occupied as it was) to the Isonzo Front would be a capital plan, the idea being to catch the Central Powers no end of a "biff" in this particular quarter. That fairly banged Banagher. For sheer fatuity it was ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... going to raid that comparatively unimportant base of theirs at such and such a time? They had the flame shooters all ready for us—and at a place where they've never had them before! We came up at twenty-five thousand feet, dropped down in a full power dive, and"—he gestured widely—"biff! The flames caught us neatly at the regulation thousand feet. They got thirteen men. Only two got away, Praed and myself." His keen eyes were inquiring, and the colonel interpreted ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various



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