Ruff may refer to:
Places
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Ruff, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
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Ruff, Washington, United States, an unincorporated community
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Ruff (bird)
The ruff (''Calidris pugnax'') is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include so ...
(''Calidris pugnax'' or ''Philomachus pugnax''), a bird in the wader family
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Ruff (cards)
In trick-taking games, to ruff means to play a trump card to a trick (other than when trumps were led). According to the rules of most games, a player must have no cards left in the suit led in order to ruff. Since the other players are constrained ...
, to play a trump card to a trick in cards
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Ruff (clothing)
A ruff is an item of clothing worn in Western, Central, and Northern Europe and Spanish America from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century. The round and flat variation is often called a millstone collar after its resemblance to millston ...
, a ruffled collar
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Ruff (surname) Ruff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alex Ruff (born 1974), Canadian politician
* Charles Ruff (1939–2000), American lawyer
* Howard Ruff, American financial adviser
*Jason Ruff (born 1970), Canadian hockey player
*Leon ...
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Ranik Ultimate Fighting Federation
Ranik Ultimate Fighting Federation (RUFF) is the first Chinese mixed martial arts (MMA) organization sanctioned by the General Administration of Sport of China. The winners of the title fights will be crowned as the national MMA champions of Chin ...
, a Chinese mixed martial arts organization
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Real Ulster Freedom Fighters
The Real Ulster Freedom Fighters, otherwise known as the Real UFF, is a dissident loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was founded in early 2007 by former members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) /Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF ...
, a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland
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Australian herring or ruff, a fish
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USS ''Ruff'' (AMc-59), a coastal minesweeper laid down in 1940
*Ruff, a percussion rudiment similar to the
drag
*Ruff, a 2015 album by
Born Ruffians
*Ruff, a fictional cat on ''
The Ruff & Reddy Show''
*Ruff, a fictional dog in ''
Dennis the Menace''
See also
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Ruff and Honours, a 17th-century card game
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Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave'', an American children's CGI animated television series
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Ruff Ruffman, the animated dog host of ''Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman''
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Ruff Ryders Entertainment, an American hip hop record label
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Ruff Ryders Indy
* "
Ruff Ryders' Anthem", a song by DMX
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USS ''Ruff'', a list of ships
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