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1. Not moving or operating freely
   "a stiff hinge"
    
2. Powerful
   "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
    
3. Rigidly formal
   "the letter was stiff and formal";
   - starchy, buckram
    
4. Having a strong physiological or chemical effect
   "a stiff drink";
   - potent, strong
    
5. Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
   "stiff convictions";
   - firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, unshakeable
    
6. Incapable of or resistant to bending
   "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck";
   - rigid
    
7. 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]

1. An ordinary man
   "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
    
2. The dead body of a human being
   "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river";
   - cadaver, corpse, clay, remains

1. Extremely
   "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
    
2. In a stiff manner
   "his hands lay stiff";
   - stiffly

1. Reject outright and bluntly
   - rebuff, snub, repel
    
2. 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."

Derived forms: stiffed, stiffer, stiffest, stiffing, stiffs

See also: drunk, effective, effectiveness, effectual, efficacious, equipotent, fertile, formal, immobile, inebriate, inebriated, inflexible, intoxicated, multipotent, potency, powerful, resolute, strength, strong

Type of: adult male, body, dead body, disdain, freeze off, man, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down

Encyclopedia: Stiff