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Noun

1. Matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied.

the mud was horrible stuff

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2. A person's belongings, equipment, or baggage.

And so, all Graham's stuff for the trip packed neatly into two soft cases, to bed.

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3. Worthless or foolish ideas, speech, or writing; rubbish.

At first sight such an idea seems outrageous stuff and nonsense.

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4. Drink or drugs.

I slowly went downhill and back on to the heavy stuff like heroin.

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5. (one's stuff) Things in which one is knowledgeable and experienced; one's area of expertise.

he knows his stuff and can really write

6. The basic constituents or characteristics of something or someone.

Healey was made of sterner stuff

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7. Woollen fabric, especially as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen.

Hugh looked again, and it was a child, in torn hose and shabby trousers, a stuff coat swallowing the small frame.

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8. (in sport) spin given to a ball to make it vary its course.

His stuff was impressive in his short stint in Detroit, as well as his 26 innings in Arizona.

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9. A pitcher's ability to produce spin on a ball or control the speed of delivery of a ball.

His stuff is similar to that of Kerry Wood, the player whom I am speaking of above.

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Verb

1. Fill (a receptacle or space) tightly with something.

Now my servants are frantically boarding the windows and stuffing sandbags.

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2. Force or cram (something) tightly into a receptacle or space.

It was unbelievable how much junk was stuffed into the small space.

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3. Hastily force (something) into a space.

He read it hastily before stuffing it in his pocket.

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4. Fill out the skin of (a dead animal) with material to restore the original shape and appearance.

Then they come to a taxidermist's shop with stuffed animals in the window.

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5. Fill (the cavity of an item of food) with a savoury or sweet mixture, especially before cooking.

chicken stuffed with mushrooms and breadcrumbs

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6. Fill (oneself) with large amounts of food.

For that few minutes, we were all silent, as we stuffed ourselves with the delicious food.

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7. Fill (envelopes) with identical copies of printed matter.

Those envelopes looked expertly stuffed and labelled.

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8. Place bogus votes in (a ballot box).

Professor Lightbody would tell you that indifference ensures that no one stuffs the ballot box.

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9. Used to express indifference towards or rejection of (something)

stuff the diet!

10. Defeat heavily in sport.

Town got stuffed every week

11. (of a man) have sex with (someone).

Stuff up

1. (be stuffed up) Have one's nose blocked up with catarrh as a result of a cold.

when I woke up that morning I was totally stuffed up and my throat was sore

2. (also stuff something up, stuff up something) Handle a situation badly.

"I stuffed up there, " she conceded.

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Origin

1. Middle English (denoting material for making clothes): shortening of Old French estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Greek stuphein ‘draw together’.

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