cuff — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Glove; mitten

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.

   Broader terms

   armwearwristwear

3. The end of a pants leg when folded up.

   Broader terms

   anklewearlegwear

4. A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.

Verb

1. To furnish with cuffs.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Related words

   cufflinksturnupoff-the-cuff

Noun

1. A handcuff.

   Usage

   • Informal
   • plural
   • Plural only

Verb

1. To handcuff.

   Usage

   • Transitive

2. To enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone).

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Transitive

   Examples

   cuffing season

   This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀

   More examples (3)

   If your promiscuous, men who know females just date around could take advantage of that, plus a lot wouldn't want to cuff a female they know isn't doing pure things.

   After my last relationship I was so amped to be happy and single, but it's funny how when you are that it's as if potential SOs gravitate even more. It wasn't too long of that before I naturally got cuffed and I'm happy in a relationship but got damn I do wish I had more time happy and single

   Whenever one of my boys cuffs a girl from the club, all I can do is chuckle and shake my head. We all know how it ends.

Verb

1. To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.

   [They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.

2. To fight; to scuffle; to box.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.

3. To buffet.

   Examples

   cuffed by the gale

Noun

1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.

   Examples

   The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:

   many a bitter kick and cuff

Noun

1. The scruff of the neck.

   Usage

   • Scotland

Noun

1. the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg

   Synonyms

   turnup

   Broader terms

   lapoverlap

2. shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

   Synonyms

   handcuffhandlockmanacle

   Broader terms

   shacklebondhampertrammel

Verb

1. hit with the hand

   Synonyms

   whomp

   Broader terms

   slap

2. confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

   Synonyms

   manaclehandcuff

   Broader terms

   fettershackle

   Examples

   The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime

3. to get involved in a relationship with another person

   Broader terms

   uniteunify