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powder puff noun1A soft pad for applying powder to the skin, especially the face.She tries in vain to reverse what is happening through the use of face powder and a powder puff, but with the knowledge that nothing can be done....- Not that the ad dwells on whatever it was he did, because too much chatter would distract from the footage of a younger, hipper Senate candidate massaging another man's face and applying powder with a pink powder puff.
- Before doing anything else, she dabs her T-zone (forehead, nose and chin) with loose powder, using a large powder puff to pick up excess moisture.
1.1 informal An ineffectual person or thing: [as modifier]: a powder-puff bowler...- Yet again Saints lacked a forward who can cause damage in the penalty box, and their powder-puff probings were often the springboard for surging Celtic counter-attacks.
- Ever since they were bundled out of the World Cup with a powder-puff effort against the Wallabies, New Zealanders have been obsessed with restoring some mongrel and cohesion to their forward pack.
- But he must do better in 2004, because he will not have the luxury of a powder-puff opposition allowing him to remain in low gear.
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