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  • 1bluff — I. a. 1. Broad and full, hearty and open. (Said of the countenance.) 2. Rough and hearty, blunt and frank, roughly good natured. 3. Steep, abrupt, precipitous, like a bluff. II. n. Precipitous bank (especially on the margin of a river or the sea) …

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  • 2Bluff, New Zealand — Bluff is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the southern most town in New Zealand and, despite Slope Point being further to the south, is colloquially used to refer to the… …

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  • 3Bluff Park, Long Beach, California — Bluff Park is a small, upscale neighborhood in Long Beach, California. There is a bluff along much of the beach in Long Beach, and on one stretch, there is the narrow Bluff Park from which the neighborhood gets its name.Bluff Park is the location …

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  • 4bluff — adj Bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech or manner. Bluff, the only term of the group used in a complimentary sense, connotes outspokenness, rough good nature, and unconventionally which bespeak a… …

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  • 5Like Now — (foaled April 8, 2003 in Florida) is a thoroughbred racehorse. As a foal of 2003, he was a possible contender for the U.S. Triple Crown in 2006.ConnectionsLike Now is owned and bred by John J. Dillon. He was trained by Kiaran McLaughlin and… …

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  • 6bluff — bluff1 bluffly, adv. bluffness, n. /bluf/, adj., bluffer, bluffest, n. adj. 1. good naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man. 2. presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front, as a coastline: a bl …

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  • 7bluff — I [[t]blʌf[/t]] adj. er, est, n. 1) good naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken 2) gel presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front: a bluff, precipitous headland[/ex] 3) gel geo a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep… …

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  • 8bluff — Synonyms and related words: Herod, abrupt, act, act a part, acting, affable, affect, affectation, aggressive, appearance, approachable, artful dodge, artifice, artless, assume, attitudinizing, bag of tricks, bamboozle, barefaced, bearish, beastly …

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  • 9Dayton's Bluff — is a neighborhood located on the east side of the Mississippi in the southeast part of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, which has a large residential district on the plateau extending backward from its top. The name of the bluff commemorates… …

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  • 10Pine Bluff, Arkansas — Pine Bluff redirects here. For the horse, see Pine Bluff (horse). Pine Bluff, Arkansas   City   …

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