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huffers

huffers is the plural of huffer.

Meaning of huffer

Noun

huffer (plural huffers)

  1. (US) A drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.
  2. (rare) One who huffs.
    • “Taxi,” I yelled, “taxi,” racing across the street and grazing the bumper of a delivery van that veered and stopped short, the driver cursing me with proletarian gusto. I reached the door about half an arm’s length ahead of a grey-haired gentleman who huffed, “It’s mine, it’s mine,” and I dropped...1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, “Morning”, in Act of the Damned, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published September 1995, →ISBN, “Two Days Before the...
  3. (obsolete) A bully; a blusterer.
    • To be expos'd in th'end to ſuffer / By ſuch a Braggadochio Huffer.1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 205

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Proper noun capitalized: Huffers

Huffers

  1. (plural) plural of Huffer

Questions about huffers

What is huffers the plural of?
Huffers is the plural of huffer.
What part of speech is huffers?
Huffers is a proper noun.

Words near huffers in the dictionary

  1. huffcaps
  2. huffed
  3. huffed and puffed
  4. huffed off
  5. huffer
  6. huffers
  7. Huffie
  8. huffier
  9. huffiest
  10. huffily
  11. huffin'

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