bluffs

Noun (1)

bluff (countable and uncountable, plural bluffs)

1. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
   • That is only bluff, or That is only a bluff.
2. An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
   • John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.
3. (US, dated, uncountable) The card game poker.
   • BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]1845, Hoyle's Games
4. (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.
5. (dated, slang) Pretense, excuse.

Noun (2)

bluff (plural bluffs)

1. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
   • In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.1878 November 8, C. Todd, “Observations at the Adelaide Observatory”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 39, number 1, page 18

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