Buff

I didn't know that Tom was a film buff.

[…]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]

1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.

His face changed from tan to buff.

A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him ; / On whoſe hard heart is button’d vp with ſteele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay worſe, a fellow all in buffe […]

He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.

I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

to strip to the buff

To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.

Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.

2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014, Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.

The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.

That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model.

He was already buffing the car's hubs.

The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.

I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.

"Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back.

The implication of such an action is an invitation to buff the chart. The medical records department could have prevented the falsification by sending a copy of the chart to the attorney at the same time that they notified the hospital physician of the attorney's request for the chart.

Bravely run Red-hood, / There was a shock, / To have buff’d out the blood / From ought but a block.

Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.

A man must consider what a blind-man’s-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

[…] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]

You will eat water buffalo meat and drink boiled water buffalo milk: buff burgers at Aunt Jane's restaurant, buff mo-mos which are the Tibetan won-tons, and buff steaks at The Globe.

For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […]

The B-52 Stratofortress is not called the Buff because it is painted a tan or dun-brown color.

I should note here in polite society it is considered proper to call the B-52 a BUFF for Big Ugly Fat Fella or Fellows

Deployed at no higher than 135 knots, the 44-foot drag chute aids in braking the BUFF.

There were also, however disgusting it might seem, "BUFF" drivers coming in from B-52 bombers and C-130 cargo haulers.

The general invited his old buddy to Barksdale to fly in the B-52 and show him just what the old BUFF could do.