Crossword clues for nerf
nerf
- Soft toy substance
- Soft stuff found in this puzzle's four longest Across entries
- Soft projectile brand
- Soft football material
- Soft ball substance
- Soft ball since 1969
- Soft ball purveyor
- Soft ball pitcher?
- Soft ball company?
- Safe ball
- Play ball maker
- Name in soft balls
- Material for playroom hoops balls
- Maker of Zombie Strike toys
- Maker of Ultra blasters
- Maker of the Zombie Strike Doominator Blaster
- Maker of the Super Soaker
- Maker of the Dart Tag toy line
- Maker of squishy darts
- Maker of squishy balls
- Maker of soft wares?
- Maker of indoor basketball hoops
- Maker of foam toys
- Maker of foam footballs
- Line of Hasbro toys
- Lightweight ball brand
- Kind of ball that's supersoft
- Kind of ball for indoor play
- Kiddy toy material
- Kid-safe projectile brand
- Indoor football name
- Indoor ball material
- Hasbro toy
- Harmless weapons maker
- Harmless ball
- Game ball material
- French nerve
- Football that won't deflate
- Football brand
- Foam-toy name
- Foam-toy brand
- Foam-based brand
- Foam-based ball
- Foam darts brand
- Foam dart maker
- Dorm hoops ball
- Doomlands gun maker
- Dart Tag maker
- Company that makes the Super Soaker Shotwave Blaster
- Company that makes squishy footballs
- Company that makes soft, squishy toys
- Company that makes soft, squishy sports toys
- Company that makes foam toys
- Company that makes foam rubber sports equipment
- Company known for its soft balls
- Brand that includes N-Strike blasters
- Brand of squishy toys
- Brand of spongy balls
- Brand of soft projectiles
- Brand of soft balls
- Brand of foam-based toys
- Brand of foam toys
- Brand of foam darts
- Brand of Blasters and Bounce Balls
- Brand name on a small foam football
- Brand for soft ball players?
- Blasters company
- Big name in unnervingly militaristic toys
- Big name in soft balls
- Big name in harmless weaponry
- Big name in foam weaponry
- Big name in foam projectiles
- Big name in foam arms
- Ball used for dorm hoops
- Ball brand since 1970
- "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking ___-herder!" (burn from Princess Leia)
- ___ war (conflict unlikely to hurt anyone)
- ___ Herder ("nerd rock" band)
- Toy ball material
- ___ball (popular toy)
- Kids' indoor ball material
- Toy ball brand
- Kid's ball material
- Soft ball material
- Kind of football
- Maker of the game Dart Tag
- Ball material
- Foam toy brand
- Toy label launched in 1969
- Soft ball brand
- ___ ball (popular toy)
- ___ ball (spongy plaything)
- Brand of 45-Down balls
- Hasbro product
- Kind of gun
- Big name in balls
- Super Soaker brand
- Nonlethal ammo brand
- Hasbro brand
- Big name in foam-based weaponry
- Gun brand not endorsed by the 111-Down
- Spongy toy brand
- Toy brand with soft sales?
- ___ Blaster (toy gun)
- Abhors material for making toys
- Spongy toy material
- Soft ball
- Spongy ball brand
- Brand of spongy toys
- ___ ball
- Type of ball
- Squishy ball brand
- Soft ball?
- Soft ball maker
- Indoor ball
- Indoor ball brand
- Squishy football maker
- Spongy ball
- Sponge ball brand
- Soft toy brand
- Koosh competitor
- Foam football maker
- Foam ball brand
- Big name in spongy toys
- Ball brand
- Vortex Mini Ultra Grip Football manufacturer
- Type of spongy football
- Soft-ball brand
- Soft ball company
- Maker of foam projectiles
- Foamy toy brand
- Foamy brand
- Foam-ball brand
- Foam football
- Foam dart brand
- Foam ball maker
- Brand of ball
- Big name in harmless weapons
- Ball brand name
- A safe bet for having a ball indoors
- ___ Blaster (toy gun that shoots foam darts)
- Zombie Strike gun maker
- Toy company that makes the N-Strike Elite SurgeFire blaster
- Toy brand for lightweights?
- Tail-finned football brand
- Super Soaker Zombie Strike Revenge Infector maker
- Squishy sports brand
- Spongy-ball brand
- Spongy toy-ball brand
- Spongy toy ball material
- Spongy toy ball
- Spongy football brand
- Spongy brand
- Spongy ball material
- Soft, squishy material
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955, in nerf bars, hot-rodder slang for "custom bumpers;" from slang verb in auto racing (1953) meaning "to nudge something with a bumper in passing and knock it off course;" ultimate origin and signification unknown.\n
\nAs a trademark name for toys made of foam-like material for indoor play, introduced 1970 (Nerf ball). By 1995 this had yielded a verbal sense of "to make less effective" (as a Nerf basketball is softer and lighter than the real thing).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context auto racing English) To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully. Etymology 2
vb. (context slang English) to water down, dumb down or especially weaken, particularly in video games.
Wikipedia
In video gaming, a nerf is a change to a game that makes something less effective or desirable. The word can be used as a verb to describe that change. The opposite of nerf is buff or revamp.
Nerf (trademarked in capitals as NERF) is a toy brand created by Parker Brothers and currently owned by Hasbro. Most of the toys are a variety of foam-based weaponry, but there are also several different types of Nerf toys, such as balls for sports like football, basketball, baseball, and others. The most notable of the toys are the dart guns (referred to by Hasbro as "blasters") that shoot ammunition made from Nerf foam. Since many such items were released throughout the 1970s, Nerf products often feature bright neon colors and soft textures similar to the flagship Nerf ball. The slogan, which has been frequently used since advertising in the 1990s, is "It's Nerf or Nothin'!". Annual revenues under the Nerf brand is approximately .
Nerf is a brand of toy and can also refer to the foam that these toys use.
Nerf may also refer to:
- New Ets-related factor, transcription factor also known as ELF2
- Nerf (Star Wars), an animal in the fictional Star Wars universe
- N.E.R.F., acronym which refers to the New England Rainbow Family
- Nerf (video gaming), a change to a game that reduces the desirability or effectiveness of a particular game element
- Nerf Arena Blast, a first-person shooter game developed in 1999 by the now-defunct Visionary Media Inc.
- Nerf bar, a tubular step fitted to the side of a truck or SUV to facilitate easy entry and exit
- Nirma Education and Research Foundation, patron of Nirma University
Usage examples of "nerf".
But then the great tongue came forward, warm and rough, driving him against the baleen plates -- it was like being smashed into a wrought-iron fence by a wet Nerf Volkswagen.
Winken, Blinken, Tod, and Nod paired up and begat eight further moldies: Stanky, Panky, Grogan, Flibbertigibbet, Dik, Dawna, Nerf, and Moana.
The cab drove away, she stood before Le Nerf in an empty street, the flowered bag without gaiety under the clouds.
And, she noticed, as he lifted his arm to bounce the Nerf ball, he was also very trim.
In a far corner of the room lay a Nerf football that had seen some heavy use.
Hotch, who was still dribbling a nerf basketball against the backboard of his office door.
She got her answer about his involvement with basketball, there was a nerf basketball hoop on the wall and numerous pictures of him and a team and some trophies on a shelf.
Their beds were pushed headboard to headboard so they could talk quietly at night and toss a Nerf ball back and forth between them in the dark to develop their sonar capabilities.
I love you, Nerf Herder, Leia silently repeated as she sat down on the gently bobbing seat.
All that talk back there in the banquet hall, about the Empire squeezing us out-what a crock of nerf waste.
Dinnid person managed to get himself into a large-capacity vat of nerf waste.
Der ewige Katarrh und die Kraempfe in Brust und Unterleib mochten es noetig machen, und schlechtes Wetter war ueber Jena, seit Wochen, seit Wochen, das war richtig, ein miserables und hassenswertes Wetter, das man in allen Nerven spuerte, wuest, finster und kalt, und der Dezemberwind heulte im Ofenrohr, verwahrlost und gottverlassen, dass es klang nach naechtiger Heide im Sturm und Irrsal und heillosem Gram der Seele.
Mais cette pression, qui naguere le secouait de la tete aux pieds, arretait le sang dans ses veines et contractait tous ses nerfs, le laissa insensible et froid.
For once I do not ascribe this tremor to ill-health but to a quite normal crise de nerfs.
He is too high for the bullets to reach him, but he dreads the onset of a crise de nerfs.