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
Bit by bit – or rather biff by biff – they are dragging themselves back in this game.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2012
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
"They's no man can stand seein' a feather pillow around all the time an' not biff it, especially when it can turn on a gallon of tears any time of the day or night."
From The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.
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
As we talk, Cleobury biffs out a few chords of the Mozart Requiem and then some from Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline to suggest that Mozart may have "borrowed" from his predecessor.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2012
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
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
An’ there’s the other toff, ’im that biffed me.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)
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
"Shall we try it again, angel voice?" asked Mr. Mackintosh, playing the piano, or "biffing the ivories," as he called it.
From A Man and His Money by Isham, Frederic Stewart
