word of the day: biff

The word of the day is biff:

Etymology:  Imitative.

slang.

1.a. trans. To hit, strike. Also to biff (a person) one. 

b. fig. To deal a blow to, to refute, to ‘stump’ (see also quot. 1895). 

c. To throw. Also intr. Austral. and N.Z. 

2. intr. To go, proceed. Esp. with off, to leave, depart. 

3. The verb used adverbially with go, in the sense of ‘with a violent blow’.  (OED)

"Are you about to get busted for a zero-to-sixty presumption of intimacy? Biffed by a stranger’s unaccountable rage? Anytime you are approaching an ambush point, Social Trapster will flare red, and suggest an alternate route: 'Ixnay on the oopidstay, this person was involved in the making of that film!'"

 - Karen Russell, "Vision Quest", 20 May 2013 The New Yorker