in the buff

Questions about in the buff

What does in the buff mean?

in the buff means "(used informally) completely unclothed".

What is another word for in the buff?

Close synonyms include bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the raw, raw. 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 in the buff a common word?

in the buff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.