I. noun
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a film buff (= someone who is interested in films and knows a lot about them )
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Film buffs will enjoy reading 'The 100 Best Movies of All Time'.
a nostalgia buff informal (= someone who likes old things )
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The restaurant, which still has its 1930s décor, is a favorite with nostalgia buffs.
blind man's buff
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■ NOUN
film
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For the real film buff , however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
history
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Describing himself as a history buff , Acosta offers his Web site primarily as a catalyst for further discussion.
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But while basketball fans lost, history buffs gained.
opera
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How many films did Hitchcock make?" "Ask Paul, -- he's a great film buff ."
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The market for magazines for computer buffs is growing all the time.
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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Computer buffs have a different phrase for it: garbage in, garbage out.
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Conspiracy buffs are having a field day speculating about White House motives.
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Describing himself as a history buff , Acosta offers his Web site primarily as a catalyst for further discussion.
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I don't just mean football supporters, or race-goers, or athletics buffs.
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Immature similar, but with whole upperparts mottled buff .
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There is little to fight over except narrow policy niceties that interest only foreign affairs buffs and bore most voters.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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Some one had even managed to buff up a shine on the old pewter candlesticks.
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It also may be because she polishes her work to a high sheen, sometimes buffing away a pesky fact or two.
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Some manicurists will then buff the nail with a chamois pad to impart a sheen on the finished item.
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The next stage is buffing to a gloss finish.
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To age the look of the gourds, she buffs them with shoe polish.