buff

Meanings

Noun

• Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
• A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
• A brownish yellow colour.
• A military coat made of buff leather.
• A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
• An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
• Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
• The bare skin.
• The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
• A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
• A buffet; a blow.
• A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.

Adjective

• Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
• Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)
• Physically attractive.

Verb

• To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
• To make a character or an item stronger.
• To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
• To strike.

Related

Similar words

• revamp
• wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnish

Opposite words

• debuff, nerf

Origin

• From buffe, from Middle French buffle.
• Old French bufer. See buffet.
• Short form of buffalo