cuff

noun

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.
5. (informal, plural, plural-only)A handcuff.
6. 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:”

   “many a bitter kick and cuff”

7. (Scotland)The scruff of the neck.

verb

1. (transitive)To furnish with cuffs.
2. (transitive)To handcuff.
3. (slang, transitive)To enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone).

   “cuffing season”

   “This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀”

   “If your promiscuous, men who know females just date around could take advantage of that, plus a lot wouldn't want to cuff a female they know isn't doing pure things.”

   “After my last relationship I was so amped to be happy and single, but it's funny how when you are that it's as if potential SOs gravitate even more. It wasn't too long of that before I naturally got cuffed and I'm happy in a relationship but got damn I do wish I had more time happy and single”

   “Whenever one of my boys cuffs a girl from the club, all I can do is chuckle and shake my head. We all know how it ends.”

4. (transitive)To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.

   “I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.”

   “[They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.”

5. (intransitive)To fight; to scuffle; to box.

   “While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.”

6. To buffet.

   “cuffed by the gale”

name

1. A surname.