Definition of Stiff
Adjective: stiff (stiffer,stiffest) stif
- Not moving or operating freely
"a stiff hinge"
- Powerful
"a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
- Rigidly formal
"the letter was stiff and formal";
- starchy, buckram
- Having a strong physiological or chemical effect
"a stiff drink";
- potent, strong
- Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
"stiff convictions";
- firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, unshakeable
- Incapable of or resistant to bending
"a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck";
- rigid
- Very drunk
"I had travelling money and got stiff in the bar downstairs";
- besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], lit, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, stewed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]
- An ordinary man
"a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
- The dead body of a human being
"the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river";
- cadaver, corpse, clay, remains
- Extremely
"bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
- In a stiff manner
"his hands lay stiff";
- stiffly
Usage: N. Amer
- Reject outright and bluntly
- rebuff, snub, repel
- Cheat, esp. fail to pay what one owes, or pay less than an expected tip (or none at all)
"I stiffed the waiter with a super small tip-but then I don't ever expect to go back."
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