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huff

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huff - To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof.

Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress.
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Oh, very well--if you're in a huff,' cried Miggs, turning away.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
That's good enough for little rubbishy common things -- specially with gals, cuz THEY go back on you anyway, and blab if they get in a huff -- but there orter be writing 'bout a big thing like this.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
It would be a nice business indeed if all these illustrious cities were to take huff and revenge themselves and go about perpetually making trombones of their swords in every petty quarrel
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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