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biffo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɪfəʊ/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From biff + -o.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable) Violence, fighting; a fight.
    • We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned. 2005, William McInnes, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, unnumbered page:
    • There was too much biffo going on at that club, so I left.
    • Barrett's working class man is simply one who enjoys his beer, his rock music (like Norton, he's a man in his early thirties), and a bit of biffo. 2006, Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen, Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective, page 236:
    • Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies. 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 207: