stuff
IPA: stˈʌf
noun
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
- (archaic) Boards used for building.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (slang, criminal argot, dated) Money.
verb
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
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Examples of "stuff" in Sentences
- It is the stuff of the universe.
- Is that the stuff from the reporter
- This is complicated stuff to negotiate.
- Enjoy the new stuff and the weird stuff.
- All of the stuff in that section is rubbish.
- It's the audit of the stuff I was working on.
- But the interesting stuff is the bibliography.
- But the Crone stuff is not a response to criticism.
- \ [INFO\] Tagging release with the label stuff-1. 0.0 ...
- The good stuff is just the most velvety thing one can drink.
- We started off with nachos (the creamy-lookin stuff is cashew cheez):
- "The Palin stuff is not aimed at the Hillary 10, it's at the other 52."
- I'm resentful of having to buy new stuff, but it was the sensible thing to do.
- Still winning all those contests with the Lead Without a Title stuff we threw at you all those years ago?
- The attorneys blinked at the use of the word stuff to describe masterworks of the quality of the Degas they were empowered to protect.
- I felt like throwing the plate against the wall * i break stuff when im angry and i throw stuff* i felt like strangling Bu Tootee and the woman.
- Ai fink he stuffffffffed dat udder kitteh inna bawks *stuff stuff stuff* an iz clowzin eet up *pat pat pat* so tu send eet bak tu teh store…. him sez: Nu kitteh?
- It’s not that I didn’t like that post, it’s just that I can get this stuff off of The View, or Tyra Banks etc., whereas I can’t get enough of your other ’stuff’ that I find enjoyable and down to earth any other place but here!
- Well, if you don't remember I going to say something about, since the last months and year I feel really unhappy of the type of draws that I made and I begin to delete all the stuff that I have in this account and upload new stuff~ She was one of my old favourites drawing, and I decide to made her again cuz I love her outfit * w*!!!