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Cream puff

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
  2. 2
    puff filled with cream or custard wordnet
  3. 3
    A weak or ineffectual person. figuratively, informal

    "— Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff."

  4. 4
    An old motor vehicle in especially good condition. slang
  5. 5
    A weak pitch. slang

    "So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express."

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  1. 6
    A state of mild annoyance or irritation. Scotland, slang

    "to be in the cream puff"

  2. 7
    A gay man. dated, slang

    ""Why'm I here? You ask that Big Guinea why I'm here? . . . He thinks I'm a ruff-tuff cream puff and that the only way I'm goin' to learn my lesson is by puttin' me away. That's why I'm here. Well, he got to think different that's all. He'd say I was a whore, and now my test says I'm negative ... So I guess he's got another think coming . . .""

  3. 8
    An exploding shell. obsolete, slang

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