1. An external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
   - frill 
2. A high tight collar
   - choker, ruffle, neck ruff 
3. Common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
   - Philomachus pugnax 
4. (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
   - trumping 
5. A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris)
   - ruffe

1. Play a trump
   - trump

Sounds like: rough

Derived forms: ruffing, ruffs, ruffed

Type of: collar, external body part, go, move, neckband, play, sandpiper, turn

Part of: bridge, genus Philomachus, Philomachus

Encyclopedia: Ruff

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