(n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
(n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
(n.) Same as Gaffle, 1.
(v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(2) Every time he opened his mouth he created another gaffe," he said.
(3) This is, admittedly, a difficult area for David Cameron, who, when questioned by David Letterman on US TV in 2012, was unable to say that Magna Carta simply meant great charter, but perhaps we should overlook this fairly amazing gaffe (for an Oxford-educated prime minister) and encourage him to inaugurate a national movement of political renewal with the charter as the context and inspiration.
(4) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
(5) There is strikingly little support for the Republican contender whose gaffe-prone visit to Europe in July won him few friends and who regularly turns European welfarism and "entitlement societies" into points of mockery in his campaign speeches.
(6) Following controversy over the candidate's comments on the preparedness of London to host the Olympic Games, his aides will be anxious to avoid further gaffes.
(7) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
(8) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
(9) Roe worried about “all these gaffes” that Biden made as well as whether the 72-year-old had the necessary energy to serve in the Oval Office.
(10) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(11) Campaigning before the June election Demirtaş had been full of mischief, needling Erdoğan, making fun of the AKP’s gaffes.
(12) Gaffes are a feature of politicians and the electoral process, not a bug.
(13) In one high-profile gaffe, the expertise of one member of Macierewicz’s commission was revealed to have been based upon experience of constructing model aircraft, sitting in a fighter jet’s cockpit during an air show, and observing plane wings while looking out of a passenger window.
(14) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(15) You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Sean Spicer apologizes for 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' gaffe Read more Spicer’s assertion during the Jewish holiday of Passover provoked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups, who accused him of minimising Hitler’s crimes.
(16) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
(17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
(18) The editor's hope is that there will be "a story", perhaps a new policy initiative but, better still, a "gaffe".
(19) If it isn’t frontbench gaffes, it’s the perceived lack of commitment to the armed forces or armed police officers distracting from government blunders.
(20) Following a gaffe-strewn visit to Britain , where he queried the Olympic host's fitness to stage the Games, and after stirring controversy in Israel by calling Jerusalem the Israeli capital and seeming to back unilateral Israeli strikes against Iran , the Republican White House contender arrived on Monday in Poland, where he is to deliver a setpiece speech on democracy and freedom.
Goff
Definition:
(n.) A silly clown.
(n.) A game. See Golf.
Example Sentences:
(1) We can welcome it as the beginning of something, just not necessarily as the end of the conversation.” Phil Goff, a critic and president of the Center for Policing Equity thinktank, was more blunt.
(2) That’s not a policy.” Goff said research on policing and crime also did not support the sweeping conclusions Trump drew – particularly when it came to blaming immigrants for an increase in violence.
(3) "It's like a personal fundraising thermometer, but at scale and applied to field organising," Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign's digital director told Rolling Stone earlier this year.
(4) Unfortunately for the former Helen Lyndon Goff (and I would genuinely apologise if she were standing next to me), I've been working on a documentary, due for broadcast this Saturday, which tells those stories too.
(5) The MoMLV integration apparatus carried out integration of the mini-HIV substrates correctly; the terminal nucleotides of the viral substrate were removed, and a 4-base-pair duplication of the target DNA flanked the inserted viral DNA (C. Shoemaker, S. P. Goff, E. Gilboa, M. Paskind, S. W. Mitra, and D. Baltimore, Proc.
(6) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.
(7) Goff said this during a conversation on the front lawn of his black neighbour and friend, Don Williams.
(8) Phillip Atiba Goff, a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity, told the Guardian in April that it would a “reasonable hypothesis” to suggest “the decay in police legitimacy is harming both police morale and community morale”.
(9) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.
(10) Accurate calculation of water vapor pressure for systems saturated with water vapor can be performed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
(11) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
(12) The subunit structure of Neurospora chromatin which contains a full histone complement (Goff, 1976) exhibits both differences and similarities to chromatin of higher eucaryotes.
(13) As he prepared to watch the flag come down, a joy came uncoiled in Wiggins; he shot an index finger to the sky and hollered, “WHEEEYEWWW!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Governor Nikki Haley reaches out to hug the Rev Norvel Goff, pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, before the Confederate battle flag is permanently removed from the South Carolina statehouse grounds.
(14) The genus Parasecia Loomis, 1966, is redefined, and Parasecia bulbocalcar Goff is described as new from specimens collected off a Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnia ludovici Anthony, taken in Morelos, Mexico.
(15) Misrepresenting these facts only makes our job harder.” Trump’s answer to the increase in violence in a few cities is the wrong one, said Phillip Atiba Goff , a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity .
(16) Methods for demonstrating antibody to wart virus by complement fixation and passive haemagglutination tests are described and compared with the precipitin test of Almeida & Goffe (1965).
(17) Here's the FT's Sharlene Goff: Sharlene Goff (@SharleneGoff) John Mann loses it with Andrew Tyrie, CM of TSC..."You're out of order with your questioning and you're out of order with your chairing."
(18) In fact, the only time Dornan has been able to stop the tethering in 11 months of relentless filming has been playing Abe Goffe in Peter Flannery's Restoration drama, New Worlds .
(19) Precise values for water vapor pressure in saturated systems may be computed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
(20) Surprisingly, however, an open reading frame encoded within the approximately 3.6-kb PstI fragment had a sequence identical to that of ELFT, an alpha(1,3)-Fuc-T previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a CHO transfectant (Goelz, S. E., Hession, C., Goff, D., Griffiths, B., Tizard, R., Newman, B., Chi-Rosso, G., and Lobb, R., (1990) Cell 63, 1349-1356).