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puffer
/ˈpʌfɚ/
noun 5
Collocations
3VERB + PUFFER
appoint, use
PUFFER + NOUN
output
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
1
Someone or something that puffs.
2
Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
3
A manually-operated inhaler.
For years he'd made relatively light of it, referring to the little inhaler he had to use as his ‘puffer’.
4
A train; a locomotive, usually one that is steam-powered.
5
A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
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For years he'd made relatively light of it, referring to the little inhaler he had to use as his ‘puffer’.
Wiktionary02
Cicero in his Offices declares his opinion , that a vendor ought not to appoint a puffer to raise the price
Wiktionary03
This is the next best thing, which is a pseudo-puffer made by converting a stream of spaceships into puffer output using several c/3 spaceships.
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