cuff

1. 1.

   hit with the hand

   Synonymswhomp

   Broaderslap
2. 2.

   confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

   “The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime”

   Synonymsmanaclehandcuff

   Broaderfetter

Other forms of cuff

plural

cuffs·

past tense

cuffed·

present participle

cuffing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cuff

What does cuff mean?

cuff means "the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cuff?

cuff has 1 syllable: cuff. In IPA it is /ˈkʌf/.

What is another word for cuff?

Close synonyms include turnup, handcuff, handlock, manacle, whomp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cuff a common word?

cuff is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cuff?

1 word rhymes with cuff. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.