Usually means: Discard, shed, or remove something.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sluff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sluff: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sluff: Wordnik
  4. SLUFF, sluff: Wiktionary
  5. sluff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. sluff: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sluff: Dictionary.com
  8. sluff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Sluff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sluff: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sluff: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLUFF: Acronym Finder
  2. sluff: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sluff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sluff: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sluff: Fifthchair Bridge

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (SLUFF)

noun:  An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
verb:  ignore, shrug (off)
verb:  to avoid working
verb:  (transitive, Utah, Idaho) To play truant from (school).
noun:  Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile). [The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer). [The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off). [(transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of slough (discard). [(transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.]
noun:  (slang, US, Air Force) Acronym of Short Little Ugly Fat Fellow (or Fucker); US Airforce nickname for the A-7 bomber.

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