Third person singular or plural of 'baff,' a golf term meaning to hit a golf ball with a club in a particular way, or to strike.
From Scottish golf terminology, 'baff' likely an onomatopoeia imitating the sound of striking a golf ball with a wood or iron club.
Golf vocabularies are full of these wonderfully specific sound-words—'baff' captures the exact percussive quality of impact, much like how 'whiff' means to miss entirely.
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