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biffed

VERB

hit

Synonyms

STRONG

bash belt clobber clout knock pop pummel punch slam slug smash smite sock strike swat thump thwack wallop whack wham whop

WEAK

let have it sock it to someone

Antonyms

STRONG

fail lose praise tap

Example Sentences

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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

But when he got to the rim, he biffed layups that he usually makes.

From Slate • May 26, 2016

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

It had the air of a room whose owner has dashed in to fetch his golf-clubs and biffed off, after the casual fashion of the artist temperament, without bothering to close up behind him.

From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)