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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

Water trickled through the canopy of old-growth trees, then the understory, forest duff, soil and rocks, before hitting the water table.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

“The duff will give you a pungent, resonant, very bright sound,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 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

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

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

In recording “Naatu Naatu,” Keeravani used duffs, an Indian skin drum held with the hands.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

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

He leaves his second short and right, then, to pantomime gasps from the gallery, duffs a chip into the face of a bank.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2021

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

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2020

“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'd boo me too," laughed The Open champion before he hurried and subsequently duffed the return.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

I’m like, ‘Yeah, you’re right, I just duffed the crap out of that chip.’

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2021

Lazarides has now self-published a book of his photographs from the time he travelled the world tasked with making sure Banksy didn’t get arrested or duffed up and didn’t run out of spray paint.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2019

Baseball players are better prepared to deal with objects flying in their general direction, though we’d probably see far more errant pitches and duffed fly balls in a slingshot-addled pastime.

From Slate ● May 29, 2018

And how he duffed in in the other department!

From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

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

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

The opener was a touch didactic, but Jay and Lynn make a decent stab at moving with the times, slipping in iPads and a Paxmanesque TV duffing for Hacker.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2012

There was no one in sight and nothing to prove how the animals had got there, but a clearer case of duffing could scarcely have been found.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby