Crossword clues for stifler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stifler \Sti"fler\, n.
One who, or that which, stifles.
(Mil.) See Camouflet.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, stifles; one who represses or limits. 2 (context military English) A camouflet.
WordNet
n. a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop" [syn: smotherer]
Usage examples of "stifler".
The rest had gone out with Morgan and Stifler and the other swamp veterans.
On the other sides of the swamp Masters knew that Morgan and Stifler, Combs, Bates, Ewart and Morris would have similar lines of men beating the pine barrens.
The crisp silence of the seashore when absolute calm prevails is as different from the strained, sodden, padded silence of the jungle as the savour of olives from the raw insipidity of white of egg, for the cumbersome mantle of leafage is the surest stifler of noise, the truest cherisher of silence.