woof

Related to woof: warp and woof, WWOOF

buy a/(one's) woof ticket

To challenge or respond hostilely to one's threats of violence or menacing, boastful words. Don't buy his woof ticket—I know for a fact that he carries a knife and would be all too happy to put it to use.
See also: buy, ticket, woof

sell a woof ticket

To threaten or try to intimidate someone with menacing, boastful words. There's this guy in the bar, drunk off his head, going around selling a woof ticket to anyone who'll listen. He's going to get himself knocked out if he's not careful. If he tries to sell you a woof ticket, don't rise to it. I know for a fact that he carries a knife and would be all too happy to put it to use.
See also: sell, ticket, woof

sell woof tickets

To threaten or try to intimidate someone with threats of violence or menacing, boastful words. There's this guy in the bar, drunk off his head, going around selling woof tickets to anyone who'll listen. He's going to get himself knocked out if he's not careful. If he tries to sell you woof tickets, don't rise to it—I know for a fact that he carries a knife and would be all too happy to put it to use.
See also: sell, ticket, woof

warp and woof

The integral, fundamental aspects, elements, or constructs of something. Personal independence has been the warp and woof of our nation's identity since its inception. The examples set by our parents form the warp and woof of our lives.
See also: and, warp, woof

woof cookies

slang To vomit, especially violently or profusely. A pronoun is often used between "woof" and "cookies." With the way that boat was rocking back and forth, I felt like I was going to woof cookies over the side at any minute. My roommate came back from his birthday celebrations and promptly started woofing his cookies into the trash can.
See also: cooky, woof
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

warp and woof

The underlying structure or foundation of something, as in He foresaw great changes in the warp and woof of the nation's economy. This expression, used figuratively since the second half of the 1500s, alludes to the threads that run lengthwise ( warp) and crosswise ( woof) in a woven fabric.
See also: and, warp, woof
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

buy someone’s woof ticket

tv. to challenge someone’s boast or taunt. (Also spelled wolf.) He’s such a fighter. He’ll buy anybody’s woof ticket.
See also: buy, ticket, woof

sell a woof ticket

and sell woof tickets
tv. to boast, bluff, or lie. (Originally black. Also spelled wolf. Compare this with buy someone’s woof ticket.) Freddie is out selling woof tickets again.
See also: sell, ticket, woof

sell woof tickets

verb
See sell a woof ticket
See also: sell, ticket, woof

woof

(wʊf)
1. in. to boast; to sell a woof ticket; to chatter. (Black.) They’re just woofing. Ignore them.
2. in. to vomit. (Onomatopoetic.) Somebody woofed on our driveway.

woof cookies

tv. to vomit. Waldo had to woof cookies in the bushes.
See also: cooky, woof
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • buy a/(one's) woof ticket
  • buy wolf ticket
  • buy a/(one's) wolf ticket
  • buy wolf tickets
  • sell a woof ticket
  • buy someone’s woof ticket
  • sell a wolf ticket
  • sell wolf tickets
  • sell woof tickets
  • talk the talk and walk the walk
References in periodicals archive
They are active in the community, highly regarded by their customers, and they are innovators and leaders in the Woof Gang Bakery system.
Woof Gang Bakery Awards Outstanding Franchises
"Following this, Rachel O'Riordan offered to commission Woof."
Portrait of a relationship; A new Welsh language play coming to the Sherman Theatre this month paints a raw, honest and sometimes humorous portrait of two men in love, writes Jenny White..
"Our idea was right and the store is going from strength to strength it seemed perfect to celebrate our expansion into a new store by launching such an amazing product as Woof. Norman, Tank, Middy, VV and all the other dogs wolfed it down, so it must be good."
Tynemouth mum's Woof Dog Beer range aims to get tails wagging; Gabrielle Imerson launched Woof Dog Beer - an idea sparked by her husband's North Shields brewery business
CUTLINE: The Woof Wagon mobile pet washing and grooming business with owner Megan Suokko Sunderland of Fitchburg and her dog Julip.
On the job
Some of WOOF!'s volunteers are real estate professionals.
Fox and the found
woof! Yet the all-new chassis delivers a stable, comfortable ride even at freeway speed.
Flex your muscle
With: Kelly Brook, Emily Woof, Dervla Kirwan, Margi Clarke, Jessica Johnson, Neil Stuke, Tim Healy, Ben Porter, Daymon Britton, Nick Whitfield, Jake Canuso, Sharon Percy.
School for Seduction
THE STARS: Kelly Brook, Emily Woof, Dervla Kirwan, Margi Clarke, Jessica Johnson.
MARK ADAMS at the movies: Brook's side of sex & fun
PERTEMPS Bees centre Shaun Woof continued his fine scoring run as he notched up another two tries in the Bees' fine win over Bristol.
Rugby union: Woof double delights Bees; BEES 37 BRISTOL 22
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama.
KM.Studio is built on Knowmadic's Web-centric Open Object Framework, or WOOF [TM], and enables developers to drag and drop navigation and extraction objects and connect them with business-rule objects to create complete applications.
Automating Knowledge Tasks
Woof, Woof!" It's as if she were just another sodden football fan going bonkers after her favorite team scored a touchdown.
Rodent Run
Pamela Woof (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), xxii + 273 pp., $59.00 cloth.
Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals
IN this latest edition of Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals, (Oxford University Press, |pounds~30), the editor, Pamela Woof has set about restoring the integrity of the original text.
Editing Dorothy Wordsworth
<em>Press Release: Woof Gang Bakery</em>
Woof Gang Bakery Announces 2019 Goals