stiff

Plural: stiffs

Noun

• an ordinary man
  • "a lucky stiff"
  • "a working stiff"
• the dead body of a human being
  • "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"
• An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
• A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
• A cadaver; a dead person.
• A flop; a commercial failure.
• A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
• A customer who does not leave a tip.
• Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
• Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
• A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.

Adjective Satellite

• not moving or operating freely
  • "a stiff hinge"
• powerful
  • "a stiff current"
  • "a stiff breeze"
• rigidly formal
  • "the letter was stiff and formal"
• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
• incapable of or resistant to bending
  • "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
  • "stiff hair"
  • "a stiff neck"
• very drunk

Adjective

• Difficult to bend or move; not flexible.
• having a strong physiological or chemical effect; ; ; ,
  • "a stiff drink"

Adverb

• extremely
  • "bored stiff"
  • "frightened stiff"
• in a stiff manner
  • "his hands lay stiffly"

Adj

• Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
• Inflexible; rigid.
• Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
• Harsh, severe.
• Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
• Potent.
• Expensive, pricey.
• Dead, deceased.
• Erect.
• Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
• Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
• Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
• Keeping upright.
• Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
• Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.

Verb

Verb Forms: stiffed, stiffing, stiffs

• To cheat someone, especially by withholding payment.
• To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
• To cheat someone.
• To tip ungenerously.
• To kill.
• To be unsuccessful.

Adv

• Of the wind, with great force; strongly.

Examples

• a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze
• Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.
• beat the egg whites until they are stiff
• He tried to STIFF his opponent out of a challenge, claiming his invalid word was legitimate.
• He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
• My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
• Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
• She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
• The rules of Scrabble can be quite STIFF, requiring precise word placement.
• working stiff

Synonyms

besotted, blind drunk, blotto, buckram, cadaver, clay, cockeyed, corpse, crocked, firm, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potent, remains, rigid, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiffly, strong, tight, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wet, DB, anatomy, asleep, at rest, bod, body, brutal, cadaverous, carcass, carrion, clay-cold, corse, deceased, decomposed, defunct, departed, dog meat, dust, expired, extinct, fey, flesh, frozen, glutinous, gone, good, gooey, hard, hardened, heavy, immalleable, inanimate, inert, inflexible, kaput, late, lentous, lich, lifeless, likam, living impaired, low, no longer with us, no more, offal, ossified, perished, petrified, powerful, quarrons, relics, reliquiae, reposing, resting, six feet deep, six feet under, slabby, solid, soma, stark, stiff, stubborn, syrupy, taut, thick, thickflowing, treacly, tumescent, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasted, whilom, with God, worm food

Antonyms

impotent, flexible, loose, malleable, slack, soft

Related Words

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