Usually means: Spontaneous, without prior preparation.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word off the cuff:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. off the cuff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Merriam-Webster
  3. off the cuff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. off-the-cuff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. off-the-cuff, off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Vocabulary.com
  7. off-the-cuff: Wordnik
  8. off the cuff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Wiktionary
  10. off-the-cuff: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Dictionary.com
  12. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Rhymezone
  13. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: FreeDictionary.org
  14. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. off-the-cuff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-the-cuff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. off the cuff: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. off-the-cuff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-the-cuff, off the cuff: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off the cuff: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from WordNet (off the cuff)

adverb:  without preparation ("The presidential candidate made a remark off the cuff")


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