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cuffs

/kʌfs/

cuffs is the plural of cuff.

cuffs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cuff.

Meaning of cuff

Noun (1)

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. (obsolete) Glove; mitten
  2. The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
  3. The end of a pants leg when folded up.
  4. A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.

Noun (2)

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) A handcuff.

Noun (3)

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
    • The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17

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Proper noun capitalized: Cuffs

Cuffs

  1. (plural) plural of Cuff

Phrases with cuffs

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Words that rhyme with cuffs

Questions about cuffs

What is cuffs the plural of?
Cuffs is the plural of cuff.
What part of speech is cuffs?
Cuffs is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cuffs?
Cuffs is pronounced /kʌfs/.

Words near cuffs in the dictionary

  1. cufflike
  2. cufflink
  3. cufflinked
  4. cufflinks
  5. cuffoye
  6. cuffs
  7. cuffs on the ear
  8. cuffs out
  9. cuffs up
  10. cuffuffle
  11. cuffuffles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuffs (page history and authors); Cuffs (page history and authors); cuff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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