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Definition of up to snuff

up to snuff

adjective

  • meeting standards or expectations.
    I don't think this batch of macaroni and cheese is quite up to snuff.

    Last edited on Nov 05 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'snuff':

Definitions include: kill, murder etc.
Definitions include: to die.
Definitions include: a movie showing an actual murder.
Definitions include: to kill.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: to misbehave.
Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
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Definitions include: to increase.
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Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
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Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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