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biffo

/ˈbɪfəʊ/

biffo noun: violence, fighting; a fight.

Noun

biffo (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Violence, fighting; a fight.
    • There was too much biffo going on at that club, so I left.
    • Barrett's working class man is simply one who enjoys his beer, his rock music (like Norton, he's a man in his early thirties), and a bit of biffo.2006, Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen, Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective, page 236

Examples of biffo in a sentence

  • We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.2005, William McInnes, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, unnumbered page:
  • Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 207:

Origin of biffo

From biff + -o.

Questions about biffo

What does biffo mean?
Biffo means violence, fighting; a fight.
How do you use biffo in a sentence?
We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.
What part of speech is biffo?
Biffo is a noun.
How do you pronounce biffo?
Biffo is pronounced /ˈbɪfəʊ/.

Words near biffo in the dictionary

  1. biffing
  2. biffings
  3. biffins
  4. Biffle
  5. Biffles
  6. biffo
  7. biffs
  8. biffy
  9. BiFi
  10. bifibacteria
  11. bifibacterial

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