Cuff definition
(medicine) An inflatable band, usually wrapped around the upper arm, that is used along with a sphygmomanometer in measuring arterial blood pressure.
noun
The turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg.
noun
To strike with or as if with the open hand; slap.
verb
Cuff is defined as to put bands around the wrist, or to fight or slap.
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.
verb
A fold used as trimming at the bottom of a sleeve.
noun
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A band, often having an opening with a button closure, at the bottom of a sleeve.
noun
A blow or slap with the open hand.
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Any of various bandlike or folded parts, as of a shoe or golf bag: esp., the inflatable arm wrap of a sphygmomanometer.
noun
To put a cuff or cuffs on.
verb
To strike, esp. with the open hand; slap.
verb
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To fight or scuffle.
verb
A slap or blow.
noun
A bandlike structure encircling a part.
noun
An inflatable band, usually wrapped around the upper arm, that is used along with a sphygmomanometer in measuring arterial blood pressure.
noun
To furnish with cuffs.
verb
(intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
verb
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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.
An example of a cuff is the close-fitting end of a sweater sleeve.
An example of a cuff is a metal circle that goes around a criminal's wrist.
An example of a cuff is a hitting of someone's face.
noun
The band at the top of a sock.
noun
The part of a glove that extends over the wrist.
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A bracelet consisting of a curved, open-ended band, as of metal or resin, that fits the wrist firmly without a clasp.
noun
A handcuff.
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To form a cuff or cuffs on.
verb
To put handcuffs on.
verb
A band or fold at the end of a sleeve, either sewn in or detachable.
noun
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A turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg.
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The part of a glove covering the wrist or forearm.
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A handcuff.
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off the cuff
- In an extemporaneous or informal manner.
idiom
on the cuff
- On credit.
idiom
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off the cuff
- in an offhand manner; extemporaneously
idiom
on the cuff
- on credit
idiom
shoot one's cuffs
- to flex the elbow or wrist so as to expose one's shirt cuffs beyond the coat sleeves
idiom
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
cuff
Plural:
cuffsIdioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of cuff
- Middle English cuffe mitten
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
From Wiktionary
- 1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”). Related to Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). Perhaps related also to Swedish skuffa (“to push, shove”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
From Wiktionary