Puff

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Puff may refer to:

General

• Puff, a light gust of wind
• Puff, inhalation
• Puff piece or Puffery, exaggerated advertising claims
• Puff sleeve

Names

• Puff Daddy, or Sean Combs, rapper
• Puff Johnson, American singer
• Puffy AmiYumi, Japanese singer
• Puff Kuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
• Puff, a character in the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
• "Puff, the Magic Dragon", nickname for the Douglas AC-47 Spooky U.S. Airforce ground-attack aircraft
• "Mr. Puff", a character in Sheridans 1779 play The Critic

Foods with high air content

• Savoury puffs, extruded corn snacks, generic cheese puffs and other flavors
• Curry puff
• Cream puff, profiterole
• Puff pastry
• Puffed grain
• Cocoa Puffs, a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills
• Sugar Puffs, a brand of sugar-frosted puffed grain breakfast cereal

Low-density materials and products

• Powder puff, face-powder applicator
• Puffs (facial tissue), an American brand of facial tissue from Procter & Gamble

Science, computing

• "Puffs", common term for Chromosome puff, diffused uncoiled regions of the polytene chromosome that are sites of RNA transcription in genetics.
• PUFFS (NetBSD), a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace
• Puff model, volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Pronounced "puff"

• picofarad (pF), a capacitance unit, sometimes pronounced as "puff"
• PF Debate, or public forum debate, sometimes pronounced as "puff"

Music

Songs

• "Puff", also "Puff, the Magic Dragon" song performed by Peter, Paul and Mary, 1963

Military

Sonar systems

Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility System, a US Navy submarine sonar system

See also

• Pouf and pouffe (homonyms)
• Puff adder (disambiguation)
• Puffer (disambiguation)
• Puffery
• Puffy (disambiguation)
• The Powerpuff Girls
• Puff Guo