# Gaff

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'''Gaff''' may refer to:

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==Ankle-worn devices==
* Spurs in [variations of cockfighting](/source/Cockfighting)
* Climbing spikes used to ascend wood poles, such as [utility poles](/source/Utility_poles)

==Arts and entertainment==
* A [character in the ''Blade Runner'' film franchise](/source/List_of_Blade_Runner_characters)
* [Penny gaff](/source/Penny_gaff), a 19th-century English variety show
* A magician's trick prop, such as a fake sword, used to imitate [sword swallowing](/source/sword_swallowing)
* A character in the ''[Eon Kid](/source/Iron_Kid)'' animated series

==Pole-shaped devices==
* [Fishing gaff](/source/Fishing_gaff), a pole used in fishing
* [Gaff rig](/source/Gaff_rig), a fore-and-aft sailing arrangement in which the sail is held up by a spar called a gaff
* [Hakapik](/source/Hakapik), or gaff, used as a seal-hunting weapon

==Other uses==
* [Operation Gaff](/source/Operation_Gaff), 1944 military mission of assassination
* [Gaff (clothing)](/source/Gaff_(clothing)), an item worn as means of concealing genitalia
* [Gaff (surname)](/source/Gaff_(surname)), for people with the surname
* GAFF or "generalized [AMBER](/source/AMBER) force field", a set of parameters used in simulating the interactions of small organic molecules

==See also==
* [Gaf](/source/Gaf), an Arabic letter
* [Gaffe](/source/Gaffe), an embarrassing error
* [Gaffer tape](/source/Gaffer_tape) or gaff tape, a form of sticky tape
* [Gaffer (disambiguation)](/source/Gaffer_(disambiguation))

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