buff: Meaning and Definition of

buff

1. a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface, originally made from buffalo skin but later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches, etc.
2. a brownish-yellow color; tan.
3. a buff stick or buff wheel.
4. a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject: Civil War buffs avidly read the new biography of Grant.
5. the bare skin: in the buff.
6. Also calleda thick, short coat of buffalo leather, worn esp. by English soldiers and American colonists in the 17th century.
7. a buffalo.

1. having the color of buff.
2. made of buff leather.
3. physically attractive; muscular.

1. to clean or polish (metal) or give a grainless finish of high luster to (plated surfaces) with or as if with a buff stick or buff wheel.
2. to polish or shine, esp. with a buffer: to buff shoes.
3. to dye or stain in a buff color.

buff

1. to reduce or deaden the force of; act as a buffer.

1. a blow; slap.

buff

1. buffe.