Definition of "chaffs" [chaffs]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaff. (verb)

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• "Although it is tempting to use helicoptors to fly to each of the locations, soldiers with Stingers (man-portable SAM launchers) will not appear on your radar like emplaced or mounted SAM sites; nor was the idea of chaffs / counter - measures taken up for Mercenaries 2 (from the first game)."
• "Look at his magnificent, though reddish whiskers, and mark the somewhat native humour with which he 'chaffs' the boys and 'prentices, or cunningly gammons the gen'lm'n into the gift of a glass of gin, of which we verily believe he swallows in one day as much as any six ordinary men, without ever being one atom the worse for it."
• "And, down in the States, Kitty Bonner is pleased at the interest her husband takes in Alaskan education and the large sums he devotes to that purpose; and, though she often smiles and chaffs, deep down and secretly she is but the prouder of him."