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buffet

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Noun

  1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
  2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
  3. A small low stool; a hassock.
  4. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
  5. The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

Verb

  1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
  2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
  3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
  4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
  5. To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

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