bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner. bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness and unconventionality.

The Bluff: Directed by Frank E. Flowers. With Karl Urban, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Temuera Morrison, Ismael Cruz Cordova. A Caribbean woman gets her secret past revealed when her island is invaded …

bluff noun [C] (CLIFF) (used in many names of places) a cliff or steep slope, often above a river: Council Bluffs, Iowa

If you bluff, you try to make someone believe that you will do something although you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.

Bluff can mean a high cliff, or it can describe a person who is abrupt in manner. The most common usage of bluff is as a verb meaning to pretend. If you bluff at cards, you are pretending to have a …

1. to mislead or intimidate by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like. 2. to achieve by bluffing: to bluff one's way into a job. 3. to deceive (an opponent in poker) by betting heavily on a weak hand.

5 days ago · bluff (third-person singular simple present bluffs, present participle bluffing, simple past and past participle bluffed) (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger …

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2) In terms of behaviour, a bluff refers to an act of deception or false display of confidence, typically used in games or strategic situations to trick or mislead someone into believing something other than the …

Idioms call someone's bluff, to expose a person's deception; challenge someone to carry out a threat: He always said he would quit, so we finally called his bluff.