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bluff

/ˈblʌf/

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verb

bluffs; bluffed; bluffing

to pretend that you will do something or that you know or have something in order to trick someone into doing what you want [no obj]

Don't listen to his threatshe's just bluffing. [=he will not really do what he threatens to do]

She says someone else has made her a higher offer, but I think she's bluffing.

He's a terrible card playeryou can always tell when he's bluffing. [=when he's pretending that he has better cards than he actually has] [+ obj]

Don't listen to his threatshe's just bluffing you.

I managed to bluff my way into the show without a ticket. [=I got into the show by bluffing]

I bluffed my way through the interview.

[+ obj] US :to pretend to do or make (something)

The catcher bluffed [=faked, feigned] a throw to first base.

noun

plural bluffs

[count] :a false threat or claim that is meant to get someone to do something

She says someone else has made her a higher offer, but I think it's just a bluff. - compare 3bluff

call your bluff

If you have made a bluff or a threat and people call your bluff, they tell you to do the thing you have threatened to do because they do not believe that you will really do it.

When she threatened to quit her job, her boss called her bluff and told her she could leave if she wanted to.

noun

plural bluffs

[count] :a high, steep area of land :cliff

They stood on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. - compare 2bluff

adjective

[more ~; most ~] :having a very open, honest, and direct way of talking that is friendly but not always polite

a bluff, easygoing fellow