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Ruff, Virginia Ruff is an unincorporated community in Mathews County, in the U. S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic ...

, United States, an unincorporated community *

Ruff, Washington Ruff is an unincorporated community in Grant County, in the U.S. state of Washington. History Ruff was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United Stat ...

, United States, an unincorporated community

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Ruff (bird) The ruff (''Calidris pugnax'') is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include so ...

(''Calidris pugnax'' or ''Philomachus pugnax''), a bird in the wader family *

Ruff (cards) In trick-taking games, to ruff means to play a trump card to a trick (other than when trumps were led). According to the rules of most games, a player must have no cards left in the suit led in order to ruff. Since the other players are constrained ...

, to play a trump card to a trick in cards * Ruff (clothing), a ruffled collar * Ruff (surname) * Ranik Ultimate Fighting Federation, a Chinese mixed martial arts organization * Real Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland *

Australian herring The Australian herring (''Arripis georgianus''), also known as the ruff, tommy ruff, or Australian ruff, is one of four Australasian fish species within the genus '' Arripis''. It closely resembles its sister species, the Australian salmon, alth ...

or ruff, a fish * USS ''Ruff'' (AMc-59), a coastal minesweeper laid down in 1940 *Ruff, a percussion rudiment similar to the drag *Ruff, a 2015 album by

Born Ruffians Born Ruffians are a Canadian indie rock band based in Toronto. Officially founded in 2004 in the Georgian Bay town of Midland, Ontario, the band is composed of frontman Luke Lalonde, bassist Mitch DeRosier, and drummer Steve Hamelin. During the ...

*Ruff, a fictional cat on ''

The Ruff & Reddy Show ''The Ruff and Reddy Show'' (also known as ''Ruff and Reddy'') is an American NBC Saturday morning animated television series, is one of the earliest Saturday morning cartoons, and the first series made by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series fo ...

'' *Ruff, a fictional dog in '' Dennis the Menace''

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