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puff noun- a homosexual man; a weak, effeminate man UK, 1902
Pejorative; probably a variation of POOF. - I was such a puff. — Boy George, Ask, p. 24, 1 May 1982
- KNIGHTY: He keeps calling me a puff. DARCY: It’s just [boxing] ring banter, tell him you’ve slept with his mother. — Paul Fraser and Shane Meadows, TwentyFourSeven, p. 95, 1997
- [E]ven trying my hardest I’d get a battering from these blokes. [...] You certainly wouldn’t call them “puffs", put it that way. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 45, 2000
- Neither of us wore seatbelts–we thought they were for puffs[.] — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 221, 2001
- Aw get yewer fuckin coat on boy. Shed’s only ten fuckin yards away, don’t be such a fuckin puff. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagget, p. 128, 2001
- marijuana UK, 1987
From PUFF (to smoke marijuana). Also variant ‘puffy’. - [H]e left and popped into town to try to score some puff. — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 38, 1997
- Alaskan weed [..] was–and is–the strongest puff I’ve ever smoked, or am ever likely to. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 111, 1999
- Most gangsters thought drugs was drugs was drugs, meaning that they thought that smoking puff was the same as injecting heroin in your eye. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 6, 2000
- [S]o we headed through Colnbrook to a house where we could normally score a bit of puff. — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 124, 2000
- [T]he officer on call was from the dog section. His hound went mad at all the puff and the pair [of drug smugglers] were busted[.] — Ministry, p. 34, January 2002
- breath UK
A puff of wind. - I’m just dancing, to be fair, just trying to get away from the cunt long enough to get my puff back–then I can come back and finish the job. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, pp. 201–202, 2001
- existence; life-span UK, 1921
- [Rehearsals for “Waiting for Godot” were] the most gruelling that I have ever experienced in all my puff. — Peter Bull, I Know the Face, but..., 1959
- a charge of explosives US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 184, 1949
▶ on your puff on your own, alone UK- This boy’s jist sittin oan ehs puff readin the News ken? — Irvine Welsh, The State of the Party (Disco Biscuits), p. 33, 1995
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