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.
  • The good stuff is just the most velvety thing one can drink.
  • I'm resentful of having to buy new stuff, but it was the sensible thing to do.

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