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Nerf

[ nurf ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for various toys modeled especially on sports equipment but made of foam rubber or other soft substances.


verb (used with object)

  1. (lowercase) Slang. (in a video game) to reconfigure (an existing character or weapon), making it less powerful:

    The game development team nerfed several guns in the recent update.

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Example Sentences

At 46, I have written over the years in coffee shops, libraries, kitchens, parks, while watching Wonder Pets with toddlers, and once during an active Nerf gun fight between my son and some neighbors.

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Now, however, Nerf is intentionally allowing players to curve their shots with its new line of Rival blasters.

We limited Nerf guns, banned first-person-shooter video games, argued about how much Star Wars they should see.

He shot at them with his Nerf Gun, assaulted them with racial epithets, and worst of all, he stole their snacks.

I notice a yellow Nerf gun–like toy on the couch inside the firehouse.

The shield was covered with horn, sinews or nerf, and skin or rind.

Make some holes in me oof you vant, aber I don'd t'ink you haf der nerf to make holes in anypody.

You vas all a back oof gowards, und don'd haf der nerf to show your faces!

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