Meaning & use
Sluffing
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Shedding or casting off something, such as skin or an outer layer, or, in card games, discarding a card that cannot win the current trick.
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The snake was sluffing its old skin behind the terrarium rock.
Rather than trump the trick, she kept sluffing low cards from her weakest suit.
A note on using this word
"Sluff" is a variant spelling of "slough" in its shedding sense, while its card-game meaning developed independently within games like euchre and spades.
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