Buff (surname) Buff is the surname of:
* Aaron Buff (1911–1994), American chair-maker
* Charlotte Buff (1753–1828), youthful acquaintance of the German polymath Goethe, who fell in love with her
* Conrad Buff II (1886–1975), Swiss-born American co-creator o ...
Johnny Buff
John Lisky (June 12, 1889 – January 14, 1955), better known as Johnny Buff, was an American boxer. He was World Bantamweight Champion from 1921 to 1922."Johnny Buff Held Two Boxing Titles", ''The New York Times'', New York, New York, pg. ...
, ring name of American world champion boxer John Lisky (1888–1955)
* Buff Bagwell, a ring name of American professional wrestler and actor Marcus Alexander Bagwell (born 1970)
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Buff Cobb
Buff Cobb (born Patrizia Cobb Chapman, October 19, 1927 – July 12, 2010)Hevesi, Dennis ''The New York Times'', July 21, 2010. was an Italian-born American actress and, with then-husband Mike Wallace, host of one of television's first talk-sho ...
(1927–2010), Italian-born American actress and former wife of Mike Wallace
* Buff Farrow (born 1967), American tennis player
BUFF International Film Festival
BUFF International Film Festival (Swedish: BUFF Filmfestival) is an international children and youth film festival in Malmö, Sweden, held annually in March.Buff (video gaming), a change to a weapon or ability that deems it more viable for game balance
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Buff (MMORPGs)
In role-playing games, a status effect is a temporary modification to a game character’s original set of stats that usually comes into play when special powers and abilities (such as spells) are used, often during combat. It appears in num ...
, a temporary beneficial status effect
Other uses
* BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fucker/Fella), a nickname of the
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air ...
bomber aircraft
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Buff (colour)
Buff (latin ''bubalinus'') is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tin ...
, a pale orange-brown colour
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Buff (turkey)
The Buff or Jersey Buff is a breed of domestic turkey named for its buff-colored plumage.
History
Accepted into the Standard of Perfection by the American Poultry Association in 1874, the original strain of Buff turkey was used in the development ...
, a breed of domestic turkey
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Buff meat
Buffalo meat is the meat of the water buffalo, a large bovid, raised for its milk and meat in many countries including India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Bulgaria, Italy, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia and Egypt.
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or buff, buffalo meat
* Buff, a character in ''
Generation X
Generation X (or Gen X for short) is the Western world, Western demographic Cohort (statistics), cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years a ...
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Buffing
Polishing and buffing are finishing processes for smoothing a workpiece's surface using an abrasive and a work wheel or a leather strop. Technically, ''polishing'' refers to processes that uses an abrasive that is glued to the work wheel, while ...
, a metal finishing process
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Nail buffing
Nail buffing is the act of polishing the nail using buffers of successively finer grit in order to make nails look more consistent and shiny. A paste is used to fill ridges on nail surfaces.
Technique
* The emery board nail file should not be ...
, a cosmetic treatment
* A state of nudity – see
In the buff
Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.
The loss of body hair was one of the physical characteristics that marked the biological evolution of modern humans from their hominin ancestors. Adaptations related to h ...
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Buff leather Buff leather is a strong, soft preparation of bull's or elk's Hide (skin), hide, used in the Middle Ages onwards, that bore a rudimentary ability to deaden the effect of a blow. As armor fell into disuse at the widespread arrival of firearms to the ...
, made of bull or elk hide
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Buff coat
The European buff coat is an item of leather clothing that was primarily worn by cavalry and officers during the 17th century, but also worn by a small number of infantry. It was often worn under iron or steel armour for the torso ( back and bre ...
, a garment of military clothing
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Buff Island
Buff Island is an Antarctic island which lies southwest of the Joubin Islands and southwest of Cape Monaco, Anvers Island, at the southwest end of the Palmer Archipelago. The island appears to be first shown and named on a 1936 chart by the ...
, Antarctica
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Buff Wood
Buff Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatley in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
This site is ecologically diverse boulder clay woodland, wit ...
, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatley, Cambridgeshire, England
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Buffs (disambiguation) Buffs may refer to:
* Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), British army regiment 1689–1961
** Buffs (football club), an early 20th-century Hong Kong team formed from players from the regiment
* Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, British Ar ...
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Buffer (disambiguation)
Buffer may refer to:
Science
* Buffer gas, an inert or nonflammable gas
* Buffer solution, a solution used to prevent changes in pH
* Buffering agent, the weak acid or base in a buffer solution
* Lysis buffer, in cell biology
* Metal ion buffer ...