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quadruple bluff en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The next bluff in sequence after a double bluff and a triple bluff
   • everything I was told as if it was at least a double-bluff and more likely a triple- or quadruple-bluff 2008, 4 November, J Beresford, TV Scoop review
   • I have been given the topic of lust and immediately I wonder what it is that you are expecting, and as I wonder I try and think should I go for bluff, double bluff, triple bluff or quadruple bluff. 2008, 28 February, Rt Revd Tim Thornton, Bishop of Sherborne, Lent lecture given to Salisbury Cathedral
   • Clearly, Britain's only hope is that the whole story is part of an elaborate, black-ops quadruple bluff designed to lull Johnny Foreigner into a false sense of security over the apparently shambolic nature of our national defence system. 2008 September 23, L Mangan, “The spy who came unstuck on national TV”, in The Guardian:
   • The Reason it is not interpretable may be that while we can appreciate the difference between sincerity and a bluff, and even between a bluff and a double bluff, our minds aren’t yet rigged up to appreciate the difference between, say, a triple bluff and a quadruple bluff. 1998, J Haiman, Talk is Cheap, Oxford university press, →ISBN:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
quadruple bluffs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

quadruple bluff en · VERB

Meanings

1. To perform a quadruple bluff

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
quadruple bluffed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
quadruple bluffed	Tense=Past		lexicographic
quadruple bluffs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
quadruple bluffing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic