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# cuff

«cuff» in Mova's school dictionary: **the end part of a sleeve, around the wrist** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cuff, cuffs); verb (cuff, cuffs, cuffed, cuffing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cuff is the end part of a sleeve, around the wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#m1)

2) (US) A cuff is a turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg (UK: turn-up). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#m2)

3) Cuffs (informal) are handcuffs, and to cuff someone is to put handcuffs on them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#m3)

4) To cuff someone is to hit them lightly with an open hand; a cuff is such a light hit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#m4)

5) A cuff is a band put round the arm to measure blood pressure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In clothes, a shirt cuff may have a button or a cufflink. In crime stories, police «cuff» a suspect. In older stories, a «cuff round the ear» was a light slap (hitting children is wrong and is banned in many places). Phrases: «off the cuff» (said without preparing), «on the cuff» (US, on credit).

### examples

- The cuffs of my school shirt are dirty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x1)
- He rolled up his cuffs to wash his hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x2)
- The police cuffed the thief and put him in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x3)
- In the old story, the boy got a cuff round the ear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x4)
- She gave a funny speech off the cuff, without notes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x5)
- The nurse put a cuff on Grandma's arm to check her blood pressure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x6)
- His jeans had wide cuffs at the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x7)
- Fairies indeed are strange, and Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/#x8)

### note

Countable: cuffs. Regular verb: cuffed. «Off the cuff» means unprepared, not «off the sleeve». Cufflinks are small fasteners for shirt cuffs.

### In the corpora

- [So the Otter cuffed him and left him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cuff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.