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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stuff
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth
▪ Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.
hot stuff
▪ The girls all think he’s hot stuff.
hot stuff (=very good)
▪ His new film is hot stuff.
know your job/subject/stuff (=be good at and know all you should about a job or subject)
never touch the stuff (=never drink alcohol)
▪ My grandfather was an alcoholic but I never touch the stuff.
sticky stuff
▪ There’s some sticky stuff in your hair.
stuff a chicken (=fill a chicken with a mixture of onion, lemon, herbs etc)
stuff and nonsenseold-fashioned (= nonsense)
▪ When asked what he thought of astrology, he replied, 'Stuff and nonsense!'
stuff envelopes (=to put letters or documents into many envelopes, for example as part of a political compaign)
▪ We need volunteers to stuff envelopes and deliver leaflets.
stuffed animal
stuffed shirt
stuff/thrust sth in your pocket (=put it there quickly and carelessly)
▪ He took off his cap and stuffed it in his pocket.
the hard stuff (=strong alcohol)
▪ I never touch the hard stuff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ August Jammed full of great stuff.
▪ Furthermore, there's no removable storage, so once the disk is full the older stuff has to go.
▪ They've got vaults full of the stuff.
▪ Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest, full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach.
good
▪ It's usually good rich stuff, ideal for the flower beds, so that's where it was dispatched.
▪ This is mostly mainstream, hit radio, but good stuff that still crosses over.
▪ All good sensational stuff, but the all-important question is, is it going to happen?
▪ She knows where the good stuff is.
▪ It would be my turn to get the good stuff.
▪ Now I get inta the good stuff.
▪ It was good boys' stuff - the hero always scoring the winning goal, hit or try.
▪ I suspect she is made of better stuff than that.
green
▪ It may be anything - roots, green stuff, old apples: it all depends.
▪ She must be getting the green stuff elsewhere.
▪ But out it came, the lunch, the champagne, the money, all the green and folding stuff.
▪ A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff.
▪ Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
hard
▪ I'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you.
▪ Harold thinks it would help him relax in the evening and not hit the hard stuff so hard.
▪ At farmhouse level, cider is hard stuff to control, in the barrel or in the head.
▪ They'd imagine me prostituting myself, or on the hard stuff.
▪ There were about a dozen writers in hospitality, most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff.
▪ The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game.
▪ That's what my father used to say whenever he took a glass of the hard stuff.
▪ I have come to believe that the soft occult more often than not leads to the hard stuff.
hot
▪ These are pretty hot stuff so it is £80 I am afraid.
▪ Flings like the recent Los Angeles Salsa Festival are proof that hoofers have the hot stuff.
▪ It's hot stuff you're dealing with.
▪ Yeahhrrr I say. Hot stuff, Sebastian.
old
▪ There's some nice old family stuff put away - crochet edges, embroidery, that kind of thing.
▪ I was told that in order to take up that old stuff, it and the plywood should be removed.
▪ And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse, more, again, further.
▪ Only a touch of the old stuff.
▪ Furthermore, there's no removable storage, so once the disk is full the older stuff has to go.
▪ We discovered new ways of working together. Old stuff now, but nobody had done it that way before.
▪ This is all such old stuff.
▪ I love that old show-biz stuff.
real
▪ The real stuff would cost a mint.
▪ The real stuff is what keeps him here.
▪ We crawled through the bushes; real ambush stuff, straight down the road, into the van and drove very fast.
▪ But we always deal with the real stuff, the curriculum, kids' needs, and the rest.
▪ Check the coping. Real pool stuff.
▪ Antimatter, it turns out, is real, nonfiction stuff, but too rare to be used directly as rocket fuel.
▪ The real vintage stuff, like Travolta leather and vinyl jackets, can still be found in local second-hand stores for cheap.
▪ A sophisticated snowmaking system makes up for any lack of the real stuff.
right
▪ He had attitude, the right stuff, like a nineteenth-century beatnik.
▪ If in doubt see if it melts with heat, then you are sure you have the right stuff.
▪ This guy Powell has the right stuff.
▪ Now it's the turn of the attack to show it's made of the right stuff.
▪ Often the right stuff is buried under an avalanche of garbage.
▪ Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
▪ Bob Dole, for instance, demonstrated he has the right stuff by conceding his loss with dignity and congratulating the president.
rough
▪ There's no rough stuff from the police - nothing you could file a complaint about - just an unexpected public display.
▪ I wait for the rough stuff.
▪ I nursed my damaged finger, and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff.
▪ A great route, but strictly for lovers of full body contact and a bit of the rough stuff.
▪ A spot of rough stuff in the night; that's all they expected.
▪ But she might still be a hindrance when it came to the rough stuff.
▪ It should out-point them on the rough stuff, too, for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers.
small
▪ Of course, that is still small stuff compared with developments elsewhere.
▪ The small time stuff took the money from the council houses.
▪ So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall. Small stuff.
▪ Plenty of smaller stuff too, though.
▪ It was all just small stuff, tenders and shuttles.
▪ What income he has comes from heroin, extortion and other people's thieving. Small time stuff, with small people.
▪ Noreen's my girl, I've brought her small stuff.
▪ If this was the small stuff what was the big stuff like?
stern
▪ This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff.
▪ But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
▪ Ann, made of sterner stuff than the rest of her tribe, leapt from the car, determined to fish.
▪ Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff.
▪ But Bastide was made of sterner stuff.
▪ She examined little boys as if they were made of much sterner stuff than mere flesh and bone.
▪ In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff.
usual
▪ He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff, you know, hand on heart.
▪ But really, now, the season is all about the usual stuff.
▪ I got the usual stuff people get; there were always insensitive professors and they comment.
▪ You know, the usual Fox stuff.
▪ We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff.
▪ She's also got the usual Walt Disney stuff.
▪ The usual stuff - eat lightly before bed, nothing milky, exercise, cut out fats and keep the tubes clear.
very
▪ Controversy, intrigue, the literary spilling of blood is the very stuff of the Guitarist letters page.
▪ This is the very stuff of college life.
▪ Parades are the very stuff of Protestant politics.
▪ We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought, of which we have called it the very stuff and process.
▪ What are these other than the very stuff of economic development?
■ VERB
buy
▪ I never bought that stuff about her ever-expanding conscience and I certainly never bought any of her beauty products.
▪ They buy some of the stuff at the grocery.
▪ The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years.
▪ He must buy this stuff on Times Square.
▪ Its operating software costs almost nothing to market and sell; computer makers hammer on Microsoft's door to buy the stuff.
▪ If you can swing it, by all means buy them new stuff.
▪ People bought the stuff on trust.
do
▪ You should do more of this stuff.
▪ I could tell him that tonight, and we could do map stuff.
▪ If it was necessary, I could do hillbilly stuff.
▪ You want to do stuff to them, put parts of your body in parts of their bodies.
▪ I did some bad stuff to some people to prove myself, but I was racked with guilt.
▪ Now do stuff that will make us want to keep watching.
▪ Afterwards, I stood up to do my stuff.
▪ What teachers need to do is put the stuff of the curriculum in its proper perspective.
get
▪ Lately we get people round asking if we've got any of her stuff.
▪ I got a lot of stuff for free, a lot of people helped.
▪ It's got stuff in it, but I can't see what it is.
▪ We got our stuff together and got out to the car a little after ten.
▪ You steal my money you get from selling stuff I carried.
▪ It would be my turn to get the good stuff.
▪ A writer gets to make stuff up, while a journalist rewrites press releases.
hear
▪ So where can I hear this stuff?
▪ And I could hear stuff going on in his stomach.
▪ She heard that stuff a lot.
▪ I love the patriotic feeling I get, hearing this stuff.
▪ The attraction here is the chance to hear the stuff live and to marvel at the harmonies and pristine sound.
play
▪ Amazing producer, composer and he can play great stuff.
▪ Fraser and I both studied classical music and revived it playing traditional stuff.
put
▪ Perhaps you'd put the stuff all ready in the treatment-room, Nurse Avery.
▪ They are put forward as the stuff of everyday life.
▪ You get yourself over there, we put the stuff in his car.
▪ I wanted to put all that two-faced stuff behind us and settle down with Mary-Claude to live a half-way normal life.
▪ What teachers need to do is put the stuff of the curriculum in its proper perspective.
▪ I put my stuff in a locker and Went out.
▪ It takes too much space and you tend to add different information to different copies and then forget where you put stuff.
read
▪ They read my stuff in the paper and they write me.
strut
▪ And, as it happens, I haven't come to watch you strut your stuff on this dubious little contract.
▪ I have done nothing to allow it to grow, change or strut its stuff.
▪ Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
▪ To celebrate, the ensemble will strut their stuff for hometown fans in Ticket to Amsterdam.
▪ Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper!
▪ And by 1895, the city was ready to strut its stuff when it hosted the Cotton States International Exposition.
▪ The presenters strut their stuff behind a podium instead of on a runway.
touch
▪ My father would not touch the stuff, he said it might be poisonous.
▪ I hardly even touch the stuff.
▪ Not that Clarissa ever touched the stuff.
▪ Well-behaved high-caste Hindus do not touch the stuff, and the constitution enshrines prohibition as a public goal.
write
▪ And they write this stuff called love poetry.
▪ But my teacher writes the stuff on the blackboard so quickly and then erases it before I can copy it all.
▪ How could she have written such stuff?
▪ I thought they would come to school and write nasty letters and stuff.
▪ He's determined to explore all the avenues open to him, including writing folky and pastoral stuff.
▪ You look at these old broadcasts and you see these literate, well-traveled, mostly men who wrote their own stuff.
▪ Did she want to write such weary stuff?
▪ Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit of stuff/fluff/skirt
be made of sterner stuff
▪ But Bastide was made of sterner stuff.
▪ But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
▪ In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff.
▪ Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff.
▪ The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
▪ The visitors seem to be made of sterner stuff.
▪ This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff.
don't sweat the small stuff
kid's stuff
knock the stuffing out of sb
strut your stuff
▪ He likes to strut his stuff on the stage in the annual Shakespeare production.
▪ Look at Dave strutting his stuff on the dance floor.
▪ We watched the sixteen year olds strutting their stuff on the dance floor.
▪ And by 1895, the city was ready to strut its stuff when it hosted the Cotton States International Exposition.
▪ And, as it happens, I haven't come to watch you strut your stuff on this dubious little contract.
▪ I have done nothing to allow it to grow, change or strut its stuff.
▪ Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper!
▪ No, this guy's fault is he had one too many bourbons before getting up to strut his stuff on the dance-floor.
▪ The presenters strut their stuff behind a podium instead of on a runway.
▪ To celebrate, the ensemble will strut their stuff for hometown fans in Ticket to Amsterdam.
the green stuff
▪ Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you have any of that clear plastic stuff to cover food with?
▪ I've got some sort of sticky stuff on my shoe.
▪ I don't know how we're going to get all this stuff into the car.
▪ Our camping stuff alone took up most of the space in the back of the car.
▪ That stuff stinks.
▪ The builders have left all their stuff round the back of the house.
▪ They sent me a bunch of stuff about the university.
▪ What's that sticky stuff on the floor?
▪ What kind of stuff did they teach you there?
▪ You're not going to have a lot of time to pack up your stuff before you move.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But now she's all married and stuff.
▪ Gore needs to maintain an impression that all of this is everyday, normal stuff.
▪ So you only send non-confidential stuff that way.
▪ Ted had never talked like this, filler talk, stuff you say when you are getting used to having a visitor.
▪ There were 2 attacks early on, but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby.
▪ We had some spare time, so we started messing around with samples and sequencers and stuff.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ I can see the black-backed notebooks, stuffed down between the sacks like something lost in a hayloft.
■ NOUN
box
▪ Stella and he had found them stuffed into old cigar boxes and plastic shopping bags scattered in different places around the house.
envelope
▪ She doesn't think that stuffing envelopes for the Democrats once every four years makes her an activist.
▪ A secretary worked at a desk piled with green stock certificates, stuffing them into manila envelopes.
▪ Finding volunteers to stuff envelopes for the local theater may be relatively easy.
▪ She also worked in abortion clinics stuffing envelopes or providing counseling over the phone.
face
▪ He's been stuffing his face ever since we left London.
hand
▪ He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes.
▪ The old man stuffed his hands in his back pockets.
mouth
▪ Leif, the beggar, was crouched in the inglenook, stuffing his mouth full of richly sauced venison.
▪ Omar sighed, his round smooth cheeks swelling with the meat, mashed potatoes, and peas-he had stuffed in his mouth.
▪ He sat by a table and stuffed chips into his mouth.
▪ She broke off a piece of baguette, spread it with butter and jam, stuffed it into her mouth.
▪ But her tongue feels as if it has been stuffed in her mouth like a rag to keep her quiet.
▪ But he marks his victims, apart from stuffing their mouths with hair.
▪ Even when a gag was stuffed into her mouth the sounds went on and on.
pocket
▪ Dougal stuffed them into his pocket.
▪ He took off his tie and stuffed it into his pocket.
▪ He tore it free, stuffed it in his pocket and returned the pad, slamming the drawer and locking it.
▪ And the more seats that are filled, the more cash promoter Bob Arum and the fighters can stuff into their pockets.
▪ Gathering up the debris, she stuffed it into her pocket to dispose of in the galley bin below.
▪ When no one was looking, I stepped outside and walked home, my hands stuffed into my pockets.
▪ Magee took one, glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket.
▪ They were sleeping with their pants on, and with their passports, watches, and wallets stuffed in their front pockets.
turkey
▪ Cook separately, or use to stuff a turkey.
▪ If you stuffed the turkey, remove the stuffing and store separately.
▪ Most home cooks prefer to roast a stuffed whole wild turkey for the drama of the presentation.
■ VERB
try
▪ Now Tabitha sat on the bunk, trying to stuff everything back into the bag.
▪ The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan's coat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit of stuff/fluff/skirt
be made of sterner stuff
▪ But Bastide was made of sterner stuff.
▪ But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
▪ In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff.
▪ Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff.
▪ The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
▪ The visitors seem to be made of sterner stuff.
▪ This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff.
full/packed/stuffed etc to the gills
▪ If Tapie was a fish he'd be stuffed to the gills this issue!
▪ It's a surprise then to find the Powerhaus pretty much packed to the gills.
kid's stuff
the green stuff
▪ Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Could you help me stuff these peppers?
▪ He had the fish stuffed to put on the wall in his office.
▪ She hurriedly stuffed some things into an overnight bag and left.
▪ We had to stuff envelopes with letters and information packs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, peacock feathers still shine brightly when their owner is dead and stuffed.
▪ I stuffed my shirt tail back into my trousers and tried to straighten my tie.
▪ Life, for me, is certainly not too short to stuff a mushroom.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stuff

Stuff \Stuff\, n. [OF. estoffe, F. ['e]toffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t. Cf. Stuff, v. t.]

  1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

    For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
    --Ex. xxxvi. 7.

    Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.
    --Shak.

    The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
    --Sir J. Davies.

  2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

    Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder.
    --Shak.

  3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

    What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?
    --Shak.

    It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.
    --F. G. Lee.

  4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

    He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
    --Hayward.

  5. A medicine or mixture; a potion.
    --Shak.

  6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

    Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
    --Dryden.

  7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
    --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

  8. Paper stock ground ready for use.

    Note: When partly ground, called half stuff.
    --Knight.

    Clear stuff. See under Clear.

    Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage.
    --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

    Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.

Stuff

Stuff \Stuff\, v. i. To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.
--Swift.

Stuff

Stuff \Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]

  1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

    Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
    --Gay.

    Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
    --Dryden.

  2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

    Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.
    --Bacon.

  3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.

    With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
    --Dryden.

  4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

  5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

    I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.
    --Shak.

  6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

  7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

    An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
    --Swift.

  8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

  9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stuff

early 14c., "quilted material worn under chain mail," from Old French estoffe "quilted material, furniture, provisions" (Modern French étoffe), from estoffer "to equip or stock," which according to French sources is from Old High German stopfon "to plug, stuff," or from a related Frankish word (see stop (v.)), but OED has "strong objections" to this.\n

\nSense extended to material for working with in various trades (c.1400), then "matter of an unspecified kind" (1570s). Meaning "narcotic, dope, drug" is attested from 1929. To know (one's) stuff "have a grasp on a subject" is recorded from 1927.

stuff

mid-14c., "furnish with" (goods, provisions, etc.), also "reinforce" (troops), from Old French estofer "pad, upholster, fit out" (Modern French étoffer), from estoffe, and probably also in part from stuff (n.).\n

\nFrom c.1400 as "fill, cram full; fill (the belly) with food or drink, gorge;" from early 15c. as "to clog" (the sinuses, etc.); from late 14c. as "fill (a mattress, etc.) with padding, line with padding;" also in the cookery sense, in reference to filing the interior of a pastry or the cavity of a fowl or beast. The ballot-box sense is attested from 1854, American English; in expressions of contempt and suggestive of bodily orifices, it dates from 1952.

Wiktionary
stuff

n. 1 miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects. 2 The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. 3 A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric. 4 Abstract substance or character. 5 (lb en informal) (non-gloss definition: Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess. 2 (context transitive English) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner. 3 (context transitive used in the passive English) To sate. 4 (context transitive British Australia New Zealand English) To be break. (rfex) 5 (context transitive vulgar British Australia New Zealand English) To sexually penetrate. (rfex) 6 (context transitive English) To be cut off in a race by having one's projected and committed racing line (trajectory) disturbed by an abrupt manoeuvre by a competitor. 7 To preserve a dead bird or animal by filling its skin. 8 (context transitive English) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. 9 (context transitive English) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. 10 (context transitive dated English) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

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WordNet
stuff

  1. n. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material]

  2. miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff" [syn: whatchamacallit, whatsis, sundry, sundries]

  3. informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: clobber]

  4. senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock]

  5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

  6. information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"

  7. a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

stuff

  1. v. fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"

  2. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, shove, squeeze]

  3. obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" [syn: lug, choke up, block] [ant: unstuff]

  4. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

  5. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"

  6. fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"

  7. fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"

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Wikipedia
Stuff (magazine)

Stuff is a British men's magazine featuring reviews of consumer electronics and previews of future technology. International editions such as previously published in the United States include other articles of interest to a predominantly male audience.

Stuff

Stuff, Stuffed, and Stuffing may refer to:

Stuff (Holly McNarland album)

Stuff is Holly McNarland's 1997 debut LP album. It features the singles "Elmo," "Coward" and the hit single " Numb." The album cover was featured in Pitchfork Media's list of "The Worst Record Covers of All Time."

Stuff (cloth)

In the context of materials, stuff can refer to any manufactured material. This is illustrated from a quote by Sir Francis Bacon in his 1658 publication New Atlantis: "Wee have also diverse Mechanicall Arts, which you have not; And Stuffes made by them; As Papers, Linnen, Silks, Tissues; dainty Works of Feathers of wonderfull Lustre; excellent Dies, and many others." In Coventry, those completing seven-year apprenticeships with stuff merchants were entitled to become freemen of the city.

One type of stuff was a type of coarse thickly woven cloth manufactured in various places, formerly including Kidderminster. Originally it was probably entirely of wool, but later a ' woolsey-linsey' cloth, made with a warp of linen, yarn and a worsted weft.

The gowns of most English lawyers are still described as 'stuff gowns' (though probably now made of other fibres). This is in contrast with those of Queen's Counsel, which are made of silk, whence they are termed 'silks'. Thus, 'stuff' in this context refers to fabric not made of silk or silk substitutes. The word was still in English upper-class usage in this sense in the 1960s.

In Victorian dressmaking terminology, stuff was used as a generic term for woven fabrics, with cloth generally reserved for woollens (as opposed to worsteds).

Stuff (band)

Stuff was an American, New York City-based jazz-funk band active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The members were Gordon Edwards (bass), Richard Tee (keyboards), Eric Gale (guitar), Cornell Dupree (guitar), Chris Parker (drums), and later Steve Gadd (drums).

Stuff (How I Met Your Mother)

"Stuff" is the 16th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on February 19, 2007.

Stuff (Stuff album)

Stuff is the debut studio disc by the group Stuff, a team of renowned session musicians who came together around the core of bassist Gordon Edwards. Released in 1976 on Warner Bros., it was produced by Herb Lovelle and legendary jazz producer Tommy LiPuma. The record earned RIAA gold status, and the group would go on to record two more studio discs, each of which also went gold.

Stuff (Eleanor McEvoy album)

STUFF is Eleanor McEvoy's eleventh studio album. The tracks on the album were compiled to meet the requests from fans for songs they couldn't find elsewhere. McEvoy chose the songs from her collection of single mixes, audiophile tracks, and songs written and performed on other artists records. McEvoy then went into the studio to record tracks that weren't found in her collection. After all songs were recorded the entire album was re-mastered. On 14 March 2014 Stuff was named Album of the Week on RTÉ Radio 1

Stuff (song)

"Stuff" is a song recorded by American country music group Diamond Rio. It was released in May 2000 is the first single from the album One More Day. The song reached #36 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Kelly Garrett and Tim Owens.

Stuff (film)

Stuff is a 12 minute documentary about the house of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. It was made in 1993 by Johnny Depp and Gibby Haynes, the lead singer of the Butthole Surfers. Dr. Timothy Leary is also present in the video. The film's main purpose was to depict the chaos and instability of Frusciante's life.

The film once aired in the Dutch TV show Lola Da Musica, and was released in the 1990s as a promo VHS. "Untitled #2" from Frusciante's Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt album is featured on this film with a poem read over it. Also featured is an unreleased Frusciante song, which contains elements of another song named "Untitled #5" on his album Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt.

As of 1 September 2015, Stuff had a rating of 7.5/10 (from 217 users) on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

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Hes stuffing his face, the wifie hates him and hes aff to see a shrink three times a week since his last suicide attempt.

Murphy ordered the engineer from aft, and in a few moments Jackson Vaughn appeared, hair soaked with sweat, coveralls stained with dirt, a Beretta 9-mm automatic stuffed into his belt.

Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.

It had occurred to me that Alsa might have left something in the cinema deliberately, but all this stuff was ordinary, the litter of a passing trade.

Lucas had a strong suspicion that Amaryllis was stuffed to her pretty eyeballs with a host of old-fashioned, boring, and very inconvenient virtues.

When I had finished, I loaded it with some chests of rubies, emeralds, ambergris, rock-crystal, and bales of rich stuffs.

Marianna had given a big party with wine from her cellars and many different kinds of fish: from mackerel and amberjack roasted over the embers to small boiled squid, from stuffed sardines to baked sole.

You can blame yourself if the stuff gets delivered in Anchorage unaltered.

True andouille is stuffed into the beef middle casing which makes the sausage approximately one and a half inches in diameter.

Oyster dressing and andouille sausage and a few other goodies are stuffed into a chicken that is then stuffed into a duck that is then stuffed into a turkey.

The angioplasty to Breit was just a sop, kid stuff, until the knives could descend.

The aquamanile I stuffed in my purse, slinging the strap over my head so it crossed my chest.

Of course, there was a lot about the Argyle treasures, old stuff that Clyde dug from the files in the newspaper morgue, but it all seemed new when given this timely twist.

It had one source of income: a factory that manufactured stuffed souvenir armadillos, armadillo purses and Gila monster wallets, then sold them to tourists blowing through on the highway.