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• n  informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person

• Luckily, the lad did not grow up to be a titled toff.
• My clenched and elongated an error occurred while processing this directive"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff.
• In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff.

• nob

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• Des O Connor in BBC News
  Chat show host Des O'Connor commented: "City toff, country yokel - all his characters were brilliantly observed and so believable. He was a kind, warm and friendly man and, most of all, a gentleman."
• Paul Myners in Telegraph.co.uk
  The complaint comes after Mr Myners, former chairman of Marks and Spencer, accused David Cameron of being a "superior young toff" whose only job outside politics was to work at a TV company that "lost billions".
• Rob Hulls in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Even his own colleagues describe him as Ted the toff from Toorak,Mr Hulls said. "He's inherited everything he's got, and that includes his seat in Parliament, and now obviously the leadership of the Liberal Party."