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buf; buff noun any large military aircraft like a Grumman A-6, a Boeing B-52, and a Sikorsky CH-33, especially the B-52 Stratofortress US, 1968 An abbreviation of “big ugly fat fucker” or, in polite company, “fellow”.- And the B-52s, or “Buffs,” for Big Ugly Fuckers. If a grant humping in the boonies heard a plane, he could take comfort: it was his. — Harry Maurer, Strange Ground, p. 365, 1989
- Here’s the story of speckled Buf, Lockheed’s Super R. — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 188, 1990: Super Constellation
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 30, 1991
- — John Horton, The Grub Street Dictionary of International Aircraft Nicknames, p. 25, 1994
- When a B-52 takes off, Flinn cocks her head to listen. “There goes a Buf,” she announces. She knows not only the nickname of this plane, but its classified secrets[.] — Washington Post, p. D1, 29 April 1997
- Boeing and the Air Force have elicited almost half a century of widely varied service form the Buf by masterful planning. — Walter J. Boyne, The B-52 Story, 2001
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