Cuff

Definition: Cuff

Cuff

Noun

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

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

Verb

1. Hit with the hand.

2. Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cuff" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Medicine

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cuff

Clothing

Glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve.

Impulse

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.

Crosswords: Cuff

Two Off the Cuff (1969)

Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Kids On the Cuff (1935)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Rotator Cuff Injury (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Cuff Links (reference)

• Cuff, a Baby Bear. (reference)

• Culture on the Cuff (reference)

• Notes on the Cuff and Other Stories (reference)

• Thighs to Die For/Book and Cuff (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rotator Cuff Disorders (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Off the Cuff (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[John R. Cuff, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

She picked out the ring, the watch charm, the earrings, dug under the pile and found one gold cuff link

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Health

In unilateral ECT, the cuff should be on the same side as the electrodes to ensure that a bilateral seizure occurred. (references)

Using a stethoscope and a cuff that is wrapped around the patient's upper arm, a health professional listens to the sounds of blood rushing through an artery. (references)

In this technique, a blood pressure cuff is placed on an arm or leg and is inflated above systolic pressure prior to the injection of a muscle relaxing agent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "cuff": blood pressure cuff ♦ cuff link ♦ cuff links ♦ cuff smb. ♦ mousquetaire cuff ♦ off the cuff ♦ on the cuff ♦ rotator cuff ♦ rotator cuff tendinitis ♦ speak off the cuff ♦ trouser cuff. Additional references.

Beginning with "cuff": cuff-buttons, cuff-link, cuff-links, cuff-title, cuff-titles.

Ending with "cuff": off-the-cuff.

Albanian

shuplakë (box, buffet), qafë dorashke, qëlloj lehtë (jog, Pat), pranga (gyve, handcuff, iron, irons, manacle, nippers, shackle, shackles), palë (fly, gathers, hem, lap, lappet, pair, pendant, reef, roll, turn up), manshetë (band, facing, wristband), kapak me mëngë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطمة (blow, buffet, slap), ‏غلل (fetter), ‏غل (fetter, jealousy, malevolence, manacle, pique, shackle, venom, yield), ‏طرف الكم, ‏صفقة (bargain, buy, deal, package, purchase, transaction, turn), ‏صفعة (cake, clap, slap, slat, smack, swipe, thwack, uppercut), ‏ثنية ساق البنطلون (turn up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям с ръка, удар с юмрук (plug, poke, punch), маншет (ear, wristband), плесница (paddywhack, slap, slap in the face, smack). (various references)

Chinese 

袖口 . (various references)

Czech

záložka (blurb, bookmark, flap, tuck in, turnup), pohlavek (clout, slap), manžeta (wristband), facka (smack). (various references)

Danish

manchet (shield, shielding). (various references)

Dutch

manchet (bellows, inflatable cuff). (various references)

Esperanto

manumo. (various references)

Farsi 

سراستین (Wristband), سردست پیراهن مردانه , دکمه سردست (Stud), دستبنداهنین زدن به , دستبند (Lei, Shackle). (various references)

Finnish

kalvosin, hihansuu (wristband). (various references)

French

manchette, manchon (teat cup liner). (various references)

German

Manschette (frill, sleeve, stranglehold, wristband). (various references)

Greek 

μανικέτι (wrist band, wristlet). (various references)

Hebrew 

ידה, שרוולית. (various references)

Hungarian

mandzsetta (wristband), hajtóka (facings, flap, handcar, lapel, lappet, turn up, turn-up). (various references)

Indonesian

menempeleng, manset. (various references)

Italian

polsino (wristband). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裳裾 (foot, hem, train), 裾 (cut edge of a hairdo, foot of mountain, hem), 袖口 (wristband). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すそ (cut edge of a hairdo, foot of mountain, hem), そでぐち (wristband), もすそ (foot, hem, train). (various references)

Korean 

팔목 (cuffs). (various references)

Manx

labbal (banging, bash, buffeting, clout, clouting, hit, hitting, knock, strike, striking, thump, thumping), labb (bash, blow, bump, clout, thump), fent mhuinneel (shirtcuff, wristband), doarn-mhuinneel, cur bassag da (box ears, clap, pat, slap, smack). (various references)

Pig Latin

uffcay.(various references)

Polish

mankiet. (various references)

Portuguese

punho de camisa (wristband). (various references)

Romanian

cãtuşã, pune în cãtuşe (fetter), palmã (clout, crack, palm, slap, span, spank), pãlmui (mug, slap), manşetã (socket, wrist), loviturã cu palmã (box, buffet), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), lovi cu palmã (box, buffet), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), bantã, bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming). (various references)

Russian 

манжета (cup, wristband). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ošamariti (buffet, slap), manžetna (dicky), manžeta (turnup, wristband), ćušnuti (spat), ćuška (jog, slap, spat), šamar (slap, slap in the face, smack). (various references)

Spanish

cadena (bond, catena, catenation, chain, gaol, jail, jess, link, network, pull, ridge, string), regreso (come back, cycle, home-coming, recourse, regress, return), puño de la camisa, puño de camisa, puño (fist, haft, handgrip, handle, head, hilt, knob, wristband), omisión (gap, omission, skip), hacer una omisión, bofetada (buffet, slap, smack). (various references)

Swedish

manschett, örfil (box on the ear). (various references)

Turkish

tokatlamak (box, slap, smack, sock, swindle, swipe, trick out of), tokat (box, buffet, clout, lick, slap, slap in the face, smack, sock, wipe, wiper), paça (calves-foot, lower part of the trouser leg, neat's foot, Trotter), manşet (caption, frill, heading, headline, screamer, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), kol ağzı (wristband), kelepçe (bracelets, clamp, cleat, darbies, handcuff, handcuffs, manacle, manacles, nippers, shackle, wristlet), şamar atmak (slap, smack), şamar (box, slap, slap in the face, smack, spat). (various references)

Ukrainian

надіти наручники, манжета (shirtband, wrist, wristband), загривок (scruff, scuff), ляпас (buffet, clout, souse), бити рукою. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cho chịu không mất tiền, cú thoi (punch), cái tát (box, smack), cái bạt tai cú đấm, quả thụi dở đấm dở đá với nhau, không phải trả tiền. (various references)

colaphis, colaphizati. (various references)

cuffia. (various references)

kuffa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cuff": cuffed, cuffing, cuffless, cufflink, cufflinks, cuffs. (additional references)

Words ending with "cuff": handcuff, scuff, uncuff. (additional references)

Words containing "cuff": fisticuffs, handcuffed, handcuffing, handcuffs, scuffed, scuffing, scuffle, scuffled, scuffler, scufflers, scuffles, scuffling, scuffs, uncuffed, uncuffing, uncuffs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cuff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuff, auff, cafc, Caffa, cafh, ccuf, Cef, ceff, cfb, cff, cft, cfu, chf, cif, cof, corff, couf, couff, cpff, cruf, cruff, cuf, cufa, cufe, Cuffe, Cuffy, cuft, cuif, culf, curf, curff, cyf, fuff, juff, Kauf, Korff, Kufr, Mcduffy, nuff, shuff, suff, Tcoff, Ucsf, uff, wuff, Ycfc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: chuff, cuffs, scuff.

+2 letters: chuffs, chuffy, cuffed, cutoff, offcut, scruff, scuffs, uncuff.

+3 letters: chuffed, chuffer, cuffing, cutoffs, factful, offcuts, scruffs, scruffy, scuffed, scuffle, suffice, uncuffs.

+4 letters: calctuff, chauffer, chuffest, chuffier, chuffing, coiffeur, coiffure, cuffless, cufflink, fanciful, forceful, fructify, fullface, handcuff, scuffing, scuffled, scuffler, scuffles, sufficed, sufficer, suffices, uncoffin, uncuffed.

+5 letters: affluence, affluency, calctuffs, chauffers, chauffeur, chuffiest, coiffeurs, coiffeuse, coiffured, coiffures, creampuff, crossruff, cufflinks, difficult, effectual, effluence, fullfaces, handcuffs, officious, rechauffe, scruffier, scruffily, scufflers, scuffling, sufficers, sufficing, suffocate, uncoffins, uncuffing.