DCHP-3

buffalo ((v.))

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

run off; evict.

Quotations

1910
"I'll help salt the mine . . . and if the Englishman gets wise to it an' asks me . . . I'll just get riled and buffalo him off the forty acres by the seat of his pants."
2†v.

puzzle; bluff; intimidate.

Quotations

1915
He's got everybody buffaloed around here.
1960
[Headline] They're Champs At Hockey But--Russians Buffaloed by Banquets.