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cuffing season

The colder months, when single people look for someone to date so they aren't alone through the holidays. Cuffed means taken.

It's cuffing season and I'm still single, help.

For parents and educators

Mostly a joke about the calendar. Merriam-Webster has it in the dictionary.

Where it came from

From African American English and hip-hop, recorded around 2009. Cuffed as in handcuffed to someone.

Also heard as

cuffed, cuffing, cuffed up

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