biff

On the first point: MoviePass’ old management did indeed biff it spectacularly.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2023

They could biff three and still embarrass the rest of the world.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016

Even amid discussions of mortality, Ed Miliband gets a biff on the nose.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014

Saturday's John Tessier sang with the subtler artistry, whereas the strong-voiced Jonathan Boyd was insistently loud and tended to biff out accents too emphatically.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011

He speaks in eulogistic terms of a "corker" which Spencer brought off in the second round, and, again, of a "tremendous biff" which Thomas appears to have consummated in the fourth.

From The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But Seattle couldn’t turn it into a first down, as Hauschka biffs a 46-yard field-goal attempt.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2014

As we talk, Cleobury biffs out a few chords of the Mozart Requiem and then some from Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline to suggest that Mozart may have "borrowed" from his predecessor.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2012

I took note this episode of how difficult it was to be a doctor in 1919, thanks to Dr. Clarkson’s plentiful biffs and boners.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012

Instead, captain and vice-captain took it on, as they should: a couple of biffs from Strauss and one streaky one from Alastair Cook and the job was done.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2010

Now, remembering a few biffs fate has given me, I have no burning desire to meddle with her business.

From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little

The event closed with the more appropriate “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful,” but the keyboardist biffed the intro to the first and the singer strangled the final note of the second.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020

By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2019

Midway down the slope on a frigid day at Mission Ridge, I biffed into the snow.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2014

Usually, it’s pilot error, as with the guy in Colorado who got biffed off his snowmobile by an avalanche that he caused.

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 13, 2014

We reached the landing where the boats were anchored and as Dum had not biffed Mabel, I suppose her prayer was answered.

From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Whether Pittsburgh’s vision also involved its place-kicker biffing an extra point and Baltimore missing a game-winning 44-yard field goal as time expired—it was a very difficult night for the human foot—he did not say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

His response since has been hearteningly uncowed: his upright, biffing style has brought eye-catching scores of 41 off 30 balls against Kings XI Punjab and a double-quick 30 against Chennai Super Kings.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010

In World War I we rallied round the goal of biffing Kaiser Bill, the symbol of all that was hateful about Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Okay, living, breathing human being,” he says, biffing her lightly on the shoulder.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

The Biffer was very busy biffing the air with a rapid circular motion of the arms, for Jimmy's fixed scowl and set of jaw troubled him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman