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However, he did not touch the ball once in the first half and gave away a penalty with a duff kick when afforded space for the first time in the second.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

The duff — needles, branches and other plant detritus — is 2 to 3 feet deep in some parts of the Angeles National Forest, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

Fire can smolder below the surface in the duff for weeks.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022

Conditions today are on the cusp, he warns me as he grabs damp duff from beneath a stand of alders and stuffs it into a garbage bag.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

Beneath each one a precious circle of dark earth and cedar duff.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

But, perhaps most importantly, she’s here to remind others to get off their duffs and out into the world, no matter their ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

But nobody will ever discover those capabilities if Siri duffs the basics on an equally regular basis.

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2020

But it’s likely to boost CrossFit studio memberships much in the same way that “The Biggest Loser” inspired couch potatoes to get off their duffs and join a gym.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2019

Nor any for the millions of gullible fools who can't get off their duffs to socialize, just like the good old days.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

“We aren’t just going to sit around on our fat duffs and do nothing, are we?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I don't know how far he's got into it, because I saw him playing not long ago and he duffed his chip into the water.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023

He closed with a 71 for 6-under 282 and appeared to have the Open wrapped up when Costantino Rocca, needing birdie on the 18th hole to force a playoff, duffed a chip.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2022

He found water off the tee and duffed a chip which did not make it to the green but steadied himself sufficiently to reel off seven pars from there.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020

My only real concern was when they duffed a shot a few yards into the infield and instinctively chased after it, narrowly avoiding shanked 8-irons that screamed by their heads.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 16, 2019

And it was out of your line, so I duffed in.

From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells

BROADCASTER: He went into his previous Masters duffing chips all over the place, yet he was fine when he got there, so you can never tell with him.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2018

He can’t make it nine consecutive points on his serve, duffing another lob into the net, but he holds to 15 with a booming ace down the middle.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2016

When they got down to hitting a golf ball, Fowler was the first to cock it up, duffing his greenside chip to gift the best player in the world first blood after just five minutes.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2014

England's agony has gone on, day after day, like that same golfer being forced to play round after failing round, an Open every week, duffing drives and missing putts, swing in pieces, galleries guffawing.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2013

"Another duffing crushing," muttered Haughton, as he stooped and placed his hand into the bucket of quicksilver under the nozzle of the retort pipe.

From The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke