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cream puff

noun

Definitions

  1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.

  2. A weak or ineffectual person.

    • — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.
    • You little cream puff Mac Daddy wannabe / Keep dreaming 'cause a Mac you will never be
    • Everybody wants to be liked, whether they are a hard-ass or a cream puff. That's very difficult in baseball.

  3. An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A weak pitch.

      • So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.
      • Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]

    2. A state of mild annoyance or irritation.

      • to be in the cream puff
      • 'You still in the cream puff, or what?' I shook my head. No, I wasn't in the huff.

    3. A gay man.

    4. An exploding shell.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA