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cuff verb- to handcuff someone UK, 1851
- I just got cuffed again / Now I’m going to dizz knee land. — Dada, Dizz Knee Land, 1992
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 42, 1996
- You are under arrest! Cuff ‘em! — South Park, 1999
- There’s a pair of handcuffs in my pocket, take them out and cuff her wrists. — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 259, 1999
- to shine something, to polish something US
- While the cat was cuffing my boots, my brother came in. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 27, 1973
- to drink to excess TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1956
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to admit someone to an entertainment without charge US
- But the two assigned to keep the visitors happy had worked the bright-light belt, so they knew where they could cuff a few small night clubs. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 223, 1951
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 67, 1981
- in an illegal betting operation, to accept bets at odds and in a proportion guaranteed to produce a loss for the bookmaker US
- — David W. Mauver, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 23, 1951
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