treff

From German Treff (“meeting point”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛf/

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treff (plural treffs)

1. (espionage) A covert meeting.
   • 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495:

     The Moscow experts on treffs perform their duty with ponderous, often ridiculous, awkwardness. Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.

From French trèfle.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛfː]
• Hyphenation: treff
• Rhymes: -ɛfː

treff (plural treffek)

1. club (symbol on playing-cards)

Suits in Hungarian · színek (see also: játékkártyák) (layout · text)
kőr	káró	pikk	treff

• treff in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

treff

1. imperative of treffe