Sentence examples for The poof from inspiring English sources
noun
A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
Doctors believe they know what teamwork is, but for many it may mean what Tina Brashers, the lead physician for the interprofessional education program, calls the "poof factor": "Doctors type into the computer and POOF, the order happens," with no input from nursing needed and little knowledge of nurses' importance to patient care.
They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang".
But others say that the "poof — all gone" effects that these powders promise are basically stardust and mirrors.
"I remember her hair with the poof at the front," she said, "but I don't think too many girls are doing that".
This kind of transformation is not unlike what happened to Ms. Sittenfeld last year, with the "Poof!" that magically made a hit out of her first novel, the defiantly ordinary "Prep".
"You can't have the poof," said Bill Cotton, Billy Cotton's son and the head of BBC light entertainment, subsequently relenting with: "Oh, get on with it, then!" Croft always disliked the PC straitjacket, especially as his non-discriminatory policy was to send up everybody.
They may celebrate the poofs, but straight women are not nice to lesbians".
A Sun feature by Piers Morgan about the sexual proclivities of various male singers was headlined "The poofs of pop".
The band, the piano, the poofs, all the furniture had started to look a bit old-fashioned, a bit Royal Variety performance (who invented the musical interlude? Logie Baird?).
The poofs stumble half-drunkenly into the evening.
