Meaning & use
Sluff
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A variant spelling of "slough," meaning to shed or cast off, or, in card games, to discard a low card unable to win the current trick.
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Snakes sluff their skin several times a year as they grow.
With no trump cards left, she had to sluff a low diamond.
A note on using this word
"Sluff" is simply a phonetic respelling of "slough" (in its "to shed" sense), common in card-game jargon like bridge and pinochle.
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