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cuffing

  1. present participle and gerund of cuff

Noun

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cuffing (countable and uncountable, plural cuffings)

  1. The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
    • 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator [] [1], New York: American Publishing Company:
      I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.
  2. The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.

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