I absolutely agree with you about the biffing on the head in the Dardennes' picture.

If I really wanted to I'd get up and give you cads a jolly good biffing, let me tell you!

I biffed him in the ear with my left hand.

I mean, what about him biffing you like that, Harry?

This year's crop were just out, biffing each other around their rocky playground.

"What impresses me is you got us in and out and we biffed them."

Wells' and Verne's people biffed about just like that.

He biffed about the pitch but wasn't quite as solid in defence.

Well, you make sport o' me, an' I'll biff ye with it!

Right up until the point you biffed.

The French are not amused, and intend to biff Fritz extremely hard.

Bit of dip and Chaochi jumped up to biff it over the bar.

Cook made 133, almost exactly half of the team's runs, while Matt Prior biffed a rapid 46 lower down the order.

Sam joined Calliope at the stove, where she was frantically biffing the grub.

He didn't only make us change our places on Fridays; he biffed us as well.

He started "biffing a twopenny ball" almost as soon as he could walk.

ESP now comes as standard, so you can biff along with a little more assuredness in the wet.

I'd rather they did all that dreadfully embarrassing rugby stuff than saved it up to biff you within your column, too.

But he needs to be seen grappling with arguments and displaying mastery in public, not just biffing John Smith at parliamentary question time.

To biff Fritz extremely hard!

'He biffed me on the nose,' Paddy said.

She who sniffed it biffed it.

"I thought grub was biffed?"

He biffed my upper arm, jock-style.

They might hate you like hell when they biffed you and you hated them back, but the emotion had its positive side, too.

"Charlie biffed Mick once in Holland.

There aren't many votes in biffing the BMA, let alone ambulancemen.

You got three biffs if the point wasn't sharp.

Riffs equated with biffs right down the line.

It fell smoldering to Biffs desk.

Throughout this decade, both clubs were known to play hard, attacking brands of football resulting in lots of biffs, bumps and brawls.

BIFFs offers schools in the area to participate in two different programs:

"About Biffs house," said Ken promptly.

Crosskill signed as secretary of the Taduz Corporation while young Lemke stood by the door of Biffs office with his muscular arms crossed.

Poke and Lloyd would crash in on George, tie him and gag him, take the stuff, and maybe give him a couple of biffs and baffs for good measure.

The quality of Bairstow's runs in this game (best bat on either team by a good margin in my opinion) made me take notice, not a couple of biffs in a 20 over thrash.

In contrast to previous BIFFs, BIFF 3.0 was held at a new venue, The Empty Space, Bakersfield.

Two biffs if you forgot to bring it in, and it couldn't be a Hector Grey's one, Mickey Mouse or one of the Seven Dwarfs or any of them; it had to be an ordinary one.

Considerably fewer facts than factoids, I would guess, but of course, it is not a happy literary occasion when a senior editor at Lingua Franca links himself uncritically to the free-floating authority of a casual biographer looking for "biffs" and "whams" and "pows."