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biff

nounverbinterjectionattested in dialogue

  • //bɪf//

A sudden, sharp blow or punch.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA sudden, sharp blow or punch.

    "Hit him a biff," said the Big Man.

  2. 2

    informalA wipeout.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo punch or hit.

    ‘But ’twas Fitzgerald who was goin’ to biff Malone, man, can’t you understand?’ old Tom interrupted.

  2. 2

    slangTo discard; to throw out; to throw away.

  3. 3

    informalTo wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.

  4. 4

    informalTo mess up.

  5. 5

    To move quickly.

interjection

  1. 1

    The sound of a person being punched or hit.

    Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.

Forms

plural
biffs
past tense
biffed
past participle
biffed
present participle
biffing
third person singular
biffs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).