fluffers

Noun

fluffer (plural fluffers)

1. Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).
   • Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines.1993, Design, numbers 533-539, page 38
2. One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.
   • "This isn't MGM. I don't do this full-time," she said. "During production, I'm the AD. Occasionally, I fill in as a fluffer."1991, Robert Reeves, Peeping Thomas, →ISBN, page 112

   Synonyms:

   fluff girl

3. (UK) One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground.
4. One who promotes or publicizes, especially one who makes something seem better or more important than it is.
   • Thus it was only as I approached the table that I discovered Lafayette hovering behind the chair next to mine, accompanied by Easy Mather, as well as their new best friend and Lafayette's personal fluffer, Jillian Noble.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 111
5. (Internet) A fluffy animal.
   • DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to...2017 April 23, Jessica Boddy, “Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers”, in NPR All Tech Considered