stuff
n 1: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a
physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat
is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material]
2: miscellaneous unspecified artifacts; "the trunk was full of
stuff" [syn: whatchamacallit, whatsis, sundry, sundries]
3: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
your clobber?" [syn: clobber]
4: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff and
nonsense, hooey, poppycock]
5: unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the
stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United
States Marine"
6: information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had
heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
7: a critically important or characteristic component;
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
v 1: fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"
2: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust
the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, shove, squeeze]
3: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: fill
up, fill, jam, cram]
4: obstruct, as of a passage; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her
arteries are blocked" [syn: lug, choke up, block]
[ant: unstuff]
5: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself [syn: gorge,
ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge,
overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize,
binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out] [ant: nibble]
6: treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a
bearskin"
7: fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the
turkey yet?"
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