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buff

adjective as in of a sandy color

noun as in enthusiast

verb as in polish to a shine

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“Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest. He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff,” she wrote Tuesday.

He seems resigned to offer incremental variations on what we’ve heard before, with the quirkiness and character that once made them interesting buffed away.

Film buffs sit snugly in cars watching a drive-in movie, munching popcorn on a lovely recent fall night.

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World War II history buffs knew it as the Chinese Nationalists’ wartime capital.

For a history buff, the region is fascinating - Burgess says just travelling around there are "monuments that you constantly drive past which remind you of the First and Second World Wars".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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