Cuff Synonyms, Cuff Antonyms

cuff mid-14c., cuffe "hand covering," perhaps somehow from M.L. cuffia "head covering," of uncertain origin. Sense of "band around the sleeve" is first attested 1520s; sense of "hem of trousers" is 1911. Off the cuff "extemporaneously" is 1938 Amer.Eng. colloquial, suggesting an actor or speaker reading from notes jotted on his shirt sleeves rather than learned lines. Cuff links is from 1897.

Example Sentences for cuff

He had no trouble locating the two cuff links but the tie bar had been lost in his sock drawer.

The playing is gentle, and the harmonies seem completely off the cuff.

The lab-based pain tests included wrapping a participant's arm in a frozen wine-cooling sleeve or a blood-pressure cuff.

That's one of the rotator cuff muscles, which have ended many a major league pitching career.