stuff
stuff
(stŭf) noun
1.
The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
2.
The essential substance or elements; essence: "We are such stuff/As dreams are made on" (Shakespeare).
3.
Informal. a. Unspecified material: Put that stuff over there. b. Household or personal articles considered as a group. c. Worthless objects.
4. Slang. Specific talk or actions: Don't give me that stuff about being tired.
5. Sports. a. The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed. b. The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball: "where we could watch the stuff, mainly curves, that the pitchers were putting on the ball" (James Henry Gray).
6. Special capability: The team really showed its stuff and won the championship.
7. Chiefly British. Woven material, especially woolens.
8. Slang. Money; cash.
9. Slang. A habit-forming drug, especially heroin.
verb
stuffed, stuffing, stuffs
verb
, transitive
1.
a. To pack tightly; cram: stuff a Christmas stocking. b. To block (a passage); plug: stuff a crack with caulking.
2. a. To fill with an appropriate stuffing: stuff a pillow. b. To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or display.
3. To cram with food.
4. To fill (the mind): His head is stuffed with silly notions.
5. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
6. To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).
verb
, intransitive
To overeat; gorge.
idiom.
stuff it Vulgar Slang
Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or disgust.
stuff (one's) face Slang
To eat greedily.
[Middle English, from Old French estoffe, from estoffer, to equip, of Germanic origin.]
stuff
ʹer noun