Red Bluff’s movie theater, previously known as Prime Cinemas and now called Spotlight Cinemas, is under new ownership and looking at the start of a “new adventure.” The public is invited to celebrate ...
bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner. bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness and unconventionality.
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.
Having or showing a rough and blunt but not unkind manner: "the great big bluff guests who told bawdy jokes and got up early to watch the sun rise" (Erin McGraw).
BLUFF definition: 1. to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you…. Learn more.
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 than it is.
Idioms call someone's bluff, to challenge someone to carry out a threat: If she thinks she can threaten us with firing us all, I think it's time we called her bluff.
A bluff can have two main definitions: 1) As a geographical feature, a bluff refers to a steep cliff or bank overlooking a body of water, or an expanse of lower lying land.
adjective Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.