cuff

The definition of a cuff is a fold or band at the end of a sleeve, or something that is wrapped around the wrist for constraint, or a slap.

(noun)

Cuff is defined as to put bands around the wrist, or to fight or slap.

(verb)

An example of cuff is for a police officer to put metal handcuffs around a criminal's wrists.
An example of cuff is to beat someone up.

See cuff in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a band or fold at the end of a sleeve, either sewed in or detachable
a turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg
the part of a glove covering the wrist or forearm
a handcuff: usually used in pl.
any of various bandlike or folded parts, as of a shoe or golf bag: esp., the inflatable arm wrap of a sphygmomanometer

Origin: by sense extension < ME cuffe, coffe, hand covering, glove < ? ML cuffia, head covering, parallel with OFr coife: see coif

transitive verb

to put a cuff or cuffs on

transitive verb

to strike, esp. with the open hand; slap

Origin: Early ModE < ? cuff (in orig. sense “glove”)

intransitive verb

to fight or scuffle

noun

a slap or blow

See cuff in American Heritage Dictionary 4

cuff¹

noun

a. A fold used as trimming at the bottom of a sleeve.
b. A band, often having an opening with a button closure, at the bottom of a sleeve.
The turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg.
The band at the top of a sock.
The part of a glove that extends over the wrist.
A handcuff.
Medicine An inflatable band, usually wrapped around the upper arm, that is used along with a sphygmomanometer in measuring arterial blood pressure.

transitive verb cuffed, cuff·ing, cuffs