Abrade the cuffs badly? (5)

I believe the answer is:

scuff

'abrade' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'the cuffs badly?' is the wordplay.
'badly?' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'badly' mean this).
'cuffs' anagrammed gives 'SCUFF'.

(Other definitions for scuff that I've seen before include "Scrape (shoe, etc)" , "drag, while walking" , "Scrape (eg, a shoe)" , "Scrape (shoes) when walking" , "Scrape (shoe leather)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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