biff
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On the first point: MoviePass’ old management did indeed biff it spectacularly.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2023
They could biff three and still embarrass the rest of the world.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
Saturday's John Tessier sang with the subtler artistry, whereas the strong-voiced Jonathan Boyd was insistently loud and tended to biff out accents too emphatically.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
A powerful baseball-style blast powers past mid-off for four more - and a brutal biff past mid-off moves Watson past 50, and allows him to overtake his partner's score for the first time.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2011
The Keyser sez so, I tell yer, so none o’ yer lip, or I, Von Schmit, o’ the Dirty ’Alf-Hundredth, will biff you on the boko.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis
Now Guy Ritchie brings us a version in which cheeky cockney tyke Arthur biffs his way through the entire cast of Game of Thrones in a suspiciously mega-populated version of dark ages Britain.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2017
But Seattle couldn’t turn it into a first down, as Hauschka biffs a 46-yard field-goal attempt.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2014
I took note this episode of how difficult it was to be a doctor in 1919, thanks to Dr. Clarkson’s plentiful biffs and boners.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012
Here he appeared for a brooding pre-match net on the outfield, his first official sighting in the Surrey tracksuit, which ended with a few tension-relieving biffs into the empty seats.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2010
At least the fly buzzes round a bit and thinks he is seeing life before he biffs into the web.
From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott
Later, we would find out that because Russia’s Roza Galieva biffed her double layout on floor, the U.S. hadn’t needed Strug’s second vault at all to win gold.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2021
The event closed with the more appropriate “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful,” but the keyboardist biffed the intro to the first and the singer strangled the final note of the second.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020
By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki.
From Reuters ● May 23, 2019
Usually, it’s pilot error, as with the guy in Colorado who got biffed off his snowmobile by an avalanche that he caused.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 13, 2014
But it is quite all right—I don't want you to mind having biffed me, in the least.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Whether Pittsburgh’s vision also involved its place-kicker biffing an extra point and Baltimore missing a game-winning 44-yard field goal as time expired—it was a very difficult night for the human foot—he did not say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
His response since has been hearteningly uncowed: his upright, biffing style has brought eye-catching scores of 41 off 30 balls against Kings XI Punjab and a double-quick 30 against Chennai Super Kings.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
In World War I we rallied round the goal of biffing Kaiser Bill, the symbol of all that was hateful about Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Okay, living, breathing human being,” he says, biffing her lightly on the shoulder.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
A silence fell upon the room, a silence that seemed to symbolize the "biffing" of the doctor's son by old French.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
