Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
gaff .
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Examples
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(although in this case you could call it a "gaf"), Geoff Beck at Majority Rights reports on the latest phony hate crime:
Speaking of gaffes... Steve Sailer 2005
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although in this case you could call it a "gaf", Geoff Beck at Majority Rights reports on the latest phony hate crime:
Archive 2005-01-16 Steve Sailer 2005
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Fun Fact: ‘Gaf’ is Dublin slang for ‘House’, as in “Everyone back to my gaf my flatmate is down the country for the weekend”
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Het slachtoffer van Polanski gaf in het verleden aan dat ze geen er bezwaar tegen had wanneer...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Roman Polanski, George Orwell, and Salvador Dali 2009
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Of course we also have Kinnocks classic gaf during a tv debate in which he suggested that Labours response to agression would be to take to the hills.
Archive 2008-02-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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“Ye canna creep out at that hole, lad; you must speak to the point — you understand me — if you want favour; gif-gaf makes gude friends, ye ken.”
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Manns studie was de enige die op dat moment ook een schatting van de onzekerheden in de uitkomsten gaf.
Volkskrant: The Hockey Team Strikes Back « Climate Audit 2005
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Where else would you hear the guys in front of you say, as they exit the theater, "I sure wouldn't have wanted to be the gaf in that last scene."
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2003
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And he -- and he -- he had this notion that he was still standing against communism, even though he saw the benefits of an alliance -- a rough alliance with China against the Soviet invasion of gaf -- Afghanistan and against Soviet expansionism more broadly.
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative History 1999
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Abe took great pride in his personal appearance, and when not in his working clothes he usually wore a blue coat in the old dress style, such as "Father Taylor" would call "a gaf-topsail jacket."
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
alexz commented on the word gaf
spotted on twitter for 'give a f...'
October 20, 2020
bilby commented on the word gaf
See also dilligaf.
October 21, 2020