The term poof can be used in several ways:
- as a British English term for a large footstool or ottoman, see pouffe.
- as a pejorative English term for a gay man, shortened form of 'poofter'. See also British slang, faggot (epithet).
- as a term for an act of disappearance or appearance.
- as a term for something fluffy.
- as in Pursuing Opportunities Outside the Firm
- In Arrested Development, it is the name of a magazine for magicians that Gob subscribes to.
- as a Western Canadian slang term for flatulence.
- as an American slang term for female flatulence.
- as a horrible player in a MMORPG.
- as in the head of a dandelion, light and airy, with little substance.
- as the action of smoking marijuana.
- the sound or act of flatulence; a fart
- as a term for a women's hairstyle
