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cream puffs

cream puffs is the plural of cream puff.

Meaning of cream puff

Noun

cream puff (plural cream puffs)

  1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
  2. (figuratively, informal) A weak or ineffectual person.
    • — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes.
      — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.1947, 2 min 55 sec from the start, in My Favorite Brunette
  3. (slang) An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
  4. (slang) A weak pitch.
    • So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories
  5. (Scotland, slang) A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
    • to be in the cream puff
  6. (dated, slang) A gay man.
    • "Why'm I here? You ask that Big Guinea why I'm here? . . . He thinks I'm a ruff-tuff cream puff and that the only way I'm goin' to learn my lesson is by puttin' me away. That's why I'm here. Well, he got to think different that's all. He'd say I was a whore, and now my test says I'm negative ... So...1967, Joan Colebrook, The Cross of Lassitude: Portraits of Five Delinquents, Alfred A. Knopf, page 72

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Questions about cream puffs

What is cream puffs the plural of?
Cream puffs is the plural of cream puff.

Words near cream puffs in the dictionary

  1. cream pie
  2. cream pies
  3. cream puff
  4. cream puff piece
  5. cream puff pieces
  6. cream puffs
  7. Cream Ridge
  8. cream rinse
  9. cream rinses
  10. cream sauce
  11. cream sauces

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