Gaff

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Gaff may refer to:

Pole-shaped devices

• Fishing gaff, a pole used in fishing
• Gaff rig, a fore-and-aft sailing arrangement in which the sail is held up by a spar called a gaff
• Hakapik, or gaff, used as a seal-hunting weapon

Ankle-worn devices

• Gaff, spurs in variations of cockfighting
• Gaff, climbing spikes used to ascend wood poles without steps on them

In arts and entertainment

• Gaff, fictional character in the film Blade Runner
• Penny gaff, 19th-century English variety show
• Gaff, a magician's trick prop, such as a fake sword used to imitate sword swallowing
• Gaff, a character in the Eon Kid animated series

Other uses

• Operation Gaff, 1944 military mission of assassination
• Gaff, or cache-sexe, an item worn as means of concealing male genitals when wearing traditionally female clothing
• GAFF, for "generalized AMBER force field", a set of parameters used in simulating the interactions of small organic molecules
• A house or apartment, in Northern English slang

See also

• Gaf, an Arabic letter
• Gaffe, an embarrassing error
• Gaffer tape or gaff tape, a form of sticky tape
• Gaffer (disambiguation)