limited to participation by women or girls.
She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
inconsequential; trifling; lightweight.
a powder-puff company with little financing and a weak sales effort.
First recorded in 1695–1705
First recorded in 1935–40
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“To do another take, they’d first brought in helicopters to blow the sand but that didn’t really work. Then they used a very big version of a powder puff on a high pole.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024
The Sun Devils haven't been world-beaters so far, but they've played two powder puff opponents.
From Fox News • Sep. 17, 2021
She imagines swooning in his arms like some gauzy thirties film starlet, propped up on a blue powder puff and surrounded by thornless roses as he tells her he loves her.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015
In the early years, stock car races, demolition derbies and powder puff races happened at the track.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2015
Instead of a powder puff, there was a chamois leather bag with powdered chalk in it, scented with attar of roses from the crusades.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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