biff
noun
a blow; punch.
Example Sentences
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The event closed with the more appropriate “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful,” but the keyboardist biffed the intro to the first and the singer strangled the final note of the second.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020
By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki.
From Reuters ● May 23, 2019
Midway down the slope on a frigid day at Mission Ridge, I biffed into the snow.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2014
Usually, it’s pilot error, as with the guy in Colorado who got biffed off his snowmobile by an avalanche that he caused.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 13, 2014
Having worked beyond their first objective, when they were given as their second the rest of the village they took it; and they were not "biffed" out of it, either.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
