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[bif] / bɪf /




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

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2023

Will they play a defensive block or risk potential humiliation by trying to biff one over the boundary?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2019

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

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016

No dice for the Swiss. 30-15 and Del Potro has enough biff in his groundstrokes to outmuscle Federer from the baseline.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2012

I just made out among the black A blinkin' wedge o' white; Then biff!

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

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

Here he appeared for a brooding pre-match net on the outfield, his first official sighting in the Surrey tracksuit, which ended with a few tension-relieving biffs into the empty seats.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2010

At least the fly buzzes round a bit and thinks he is seeing life before he biffs into the web.

From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry

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

This year, she biffed: Lui favored Chris Pratt with 3-to-1 odds.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 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

So long!' and biffed out, without apparently knowing that Derek was on the earth.

From Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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

A silence fell upon the room, a silence that seemed to symbolize the "biffing" of the doctor's son by old French.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie


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