Buffs

/ (bʌfs) /

pl n

the Buffs the Third Regiment of Foot, esp the Royal East Kent Regiment

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Word Origin for Buffs

C19: from their buff-coloured facings

Words nearby Buffs

buffing wheel, bufflehead, buffo, Buffon, buffoon, Buffs, buff stick, buff-tip moth, buff top, buff wheel, buffy

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Example sentences from the Web for Buffs

It took a lot of desperate hectoring for the buffs—Do I have to do everything myself here?
Former Cop Edward Conlon on What He Learned About Profiling|Edward Conlon|April 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In fact, at one point, Ms. Cohen writes, “To anyone besides Watergate buffs, the dispute may seem trivial.”
The Times Bungles Watergate|John W. Dean|February 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST
At the sound of the musketry the Buffs were recalled from the village of Badelai and also marched to support the 35th Sikhs.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force|Sir Winston S. Churchill
Colonel Winter, of the Buffs, told me that he came across a donkey-cart in charge of two men, who were waiting at a cross-road.
Ireland as It Is|Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

At the former was a detachment of the Buffs, and at the latter of the Royal Fusiliers.
The Great Boer War|Arthur Conan Doyle
As the Buffs reached the camp the rain which had hitherto held off came down.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force|Sir Winston S. Churchill
Individual tribesmen ran up, shouting insults, to within fifty yards of the Buffs and discharged their rifles.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force|Sir Winston S. Churchill

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