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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of buffalo.

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Examples

  • Young Hardman could perhaps have explained what lay at the roots of it, but O'Connor admitted that he was "buffaloed" when he attempted an analysis of his unusual feeling.

    Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The Eagles had the Elks "buffaloed" after the first, winning the game by a score of 9 to 2.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

  • Boy do the politicians like Soliday and Costas, Charbonneau, and the rest have them "buffaloed".

    unknown title 2009

  • "buffaloed" is the term he used, referring to the big-game animal that has been swept from the American savannahs.

    Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • I would like to believe the populace of that state is too smart to be buffaloed by this sorry excuse for a member of the House of Representatives.

    Defiant Wilson raises more than $200,000 after outburst 2009

  • However, most of the US groups that are involved with the issue are not being buffaloed by this nonsense.

    Think Progress » Donohue: ‘There’s a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors.’ 2010

  • He has said that he not his subordinates will be the one calling the shots so why all of a sudden is it that he is being buffaloed by the Village?

    The Re-Up | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • It appears that when inexperienced administration officials faced BP's steely-eyed negotiators on this issue, they were buffaloed into shutting in the well without measuring the flow.

    Robert L. Cavnar: BP Wins: EPA Will Agree to Cut Oil Spill Estimate Robert L. Cavnar 2011

  • He didn't know and, unless everything we believe about Warren Buffett is wrong, Mr. Buffett isn't a guy to be buffaloed into a deal just to suit Mr. Sokol.

    St. Warren Casts Not the First Stone Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • It amazes me that the American people allowed themselves to be buffaloed into voting for this leftist weasel who is giving away our hard won diplomatic strengths while drinking beers in the white house backyard with a cop and the guy who resisted his arrest.

    Obama's global support put to the test? 2009

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