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biff	(n): (boxing) a blow with the fist ( more... ) (n): a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon (v): strike, usually with the fist (v): deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

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2 months ago yarb said:

Gibbo picks up a Magnesian Limestone
chunk and assails the ledges at random,
biffing an incubating kittiwake
full in the sternum - an audible slap.

- Peter Reading, At Marsden Bay, from Diplopic, 1983

8 months ago brtom said:

"He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry." Joyce, Ulysses, 15

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