buffalo

noun

1. An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.

   “"It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die."”

   “And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.”

   “From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures / Circling beneath the dark clouds / Looking for the rain / Well, they've been looking for the rain”

   “The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.”

2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
4. The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
5. (US, slang)A nickel.
6. (US, historical, slang)A looter during the Civil War.
7. (derogatory, slang)A large or stupid person.
8. (derogatory, slang)An obese person, usually a woman.
9. (derogatory, offensive, slang)A black male.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).

verb

1. (transitive)To hunt buffalo.
2. (US, slang, transitive)To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.

   “I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.”

   “The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert.”

   “He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world.”

   “If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.”

3. (archaic, transitive)To pistol-whip.

   “Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.”

   “He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.”

name

1. A placename

   “And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that sought to “ethnically replace my own people.””

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