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BUF

BUF is the initialism of British Union of Fascists.

BUF is the abbreviation of Buffalo.

Meaning of Buffalo

Proper noun

Buffalo

  1. A major city, the county seat of Erie County, New York, USA; very near Niagara Falls.
    • And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that...2022 May 16, Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, “A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022
  2. A small city in Scott County, Iowa.
  3. A city, the county seat of Wright County, Minnesota.
  4. A city, the county seat of Dallas County, Missouri.
  5. A town, the county seat of Harper County, Oklahoma.
  6. A census-designated place in Union County, South Carolina.

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Questions about BUF

What is BUF the initialism of?
BUF is the initialism of British Union of Fascists.

Words near BUF in the dictionary

  1. Buetow
  2. Buetows
  3. buetschliite
  4. Buettner
  5. Buettners
  6. BUF
  7. bufadienolide
  8. bufadienolides
  9. bufagenin
  10. bufagenins
  11. bufagin

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