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—stuffless, adj./stuf/, n.1. the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.2. material to be worked upon or to be used in making something: wood, steel, and other stuff for building.3. material of some unspecified kind: a cushion filled with some soft stuff.4. Chiefly Brit. woven material or fabric, esp. wool.5. property, as personal belongings or equipment; things.6. something to be swallowed, as food, drink, or medicine.7. inward character, qualities, or capabilities: to have good stuff in one.9. worthless things or matter: to clean the stuff out of a closet.10. worthless or foolish ideas, talk, or writing: a lot of stuff and nonsense.11. Sports.a. Baseball. the assortment of pitches that a pitcher uses in a game together with the ability to deliver them in the proper manner at the right speed to the desired spot: He saved his best stuff for the tougher hitters in the lineup.b. spin or speed imparted to a ball, as by a baseball pitcher, a bowler, or a tennis player: a pitch with plenty of stuff.12. Informal. journalistic, literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, or other compositions or performances: Bach composed some splendid stuff.13. Informal. one's trade, skill, field, facts, etc.: She knows her stuff.14. Slang. any kind of drug, esp. an illicit one.v.t.18. to fill or line with some kind of material as a padding or packing.21. to fill the preserved skin of (a dead animal) with material, retaining its natural form and appearance for display.22. to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).24. to pack tightly in a confined place; crowd together.27. (in leather manufacturing) to treat (a skin, hide, etc.) with a composition of tallow and other ingredients.28. to stop up or plug; block or choke (usually fol. by up).v.i.29. to cram oneself with food; eat gluttonously; gorge.[1300-50; (v.) late ME stuffen to equip, furnish < OF estoffer lit., to stuff < Frankish *stopfon, *stoppon (see STOP); (n.) ME < OF estoffe, deriv. of the v.]Syn. 1, 2, 3. See matter. 9. waste, rubbish, trash. 10. nonsense, twaddle, claptrap, balderdash. 23. press, stow. 28. obstruct.
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