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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stuff/stʌf/

▶noun

1 matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind.
■ informal alcoholic drink or drugs.

■ (one's stuff) one's area of expertise.

2 basic characteristics; substance: Healey was made of sterner stuff.

3 Brit. dated woollen fabric, especially as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen.

4 N. Amer. (in sport) spin given to a ball.

5 Brit. informal, dated nonsense; rubbish.

▶verb

1 fill tightly with something.
■ force tightly into a receptacle or space.

■ fill out the skin of (a dead animal or bird) with material to restore the original shape and appearance.

■ push hastily into a space.

■ (be stuffed up) informal have one's nose blocked up with catarrh.

■ informal fill (oneself) with large amounts of food.

2 [usu. in imper.] Brit. informal used to express indifference or rejection.

3 Brit. informal defeat heavily in sport.

4 Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex with.

5 N. Amer. place bogus votes in (a ballot box).

– phrases
get stuffed [usu. in imper.] Brit. informal said to express dismissal or contempt.
that's the stuff Brit. informal that is good or what is needed.

– derivatives
-stuffer noun.

– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Gk stuphein ‘draw together’.

'stuff' also found in these Oxford entries:

bit - clafoutis - farce - farcy - forcemeat - hard - hot stuff - infarct - kid - right - staffage - stodge - stop - strut - stuff gown - stuffing - wad

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