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▪ I. sluff, v.|slʌf|
U.S. var. slough v.2 3.
For other uses see Engl. Dial. Dict. s.v. Slough n.1 and vb.1.
1934Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs i. 24 And sluffed their coin for ‘dago red’. 1959T. Reese Bridge Player's Dict. 206 Sluff, to discard; to throw a card, other than a trump, of a suit different from the one led. 1964N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Dec. 20 Its water-repellent finish sluffs off snow. 1966J. dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 56, I had sluffed off Harvard indifference, but Harvard snobbery still hung on. 1972New York 8 May 43/3 His [sc. a dog's] shedding mechanism, which now goes about building up and sluffing off the coat. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 50/4 When I consulted a urologist he complained that he was sick of other doctors sluffing the problem off on him all the time. 1976National Skat & Sheepshead Q. Mar. 5 The picker sluffed off the club king. 1978Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 19c/3 East is now squeezed in the red suits—he must either give up a trick to the jack of hearts or sluff two diamonds, which sets up declarer's third diamond. 1980Amer. Speech LV. 210 Black jazzmen returned to the linguistic roots of their art which had been sidetracked and sluffed off in the bebop/bop movement of the 1940s.
▪ II. sluff
obs. or dial. form of slough n.2 |