biff

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

Even amid discussions of mortality, Ed Miliband gets a biff on the nose.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014

No dice for the Swiss. 30-15 and Del Potro has enough biff in his groundstrokes to outmuscle Federer from the baseline.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2012

"That's a nice way to biff a man in the dark!" he chuckled.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

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

Bingo biffs about London on a pretty comfortable allowance given him by his uncle, and leads on the whole a fairly unclouded life.

From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The Ratio, as Roth coined it, meant someone had biffed their tweet badly enough to generate a solid Major League Baseball stat line.

From Slate ● May 7, 2023

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

The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech, had biffed him in the eye.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone

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

The Biffer was very busy biffing the air with a rapid circular motion of the arms, for Jimmy's fixed scowl and set of jaw troubled him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman