1. Not moving or operating freely
   "a stiff hinge"
    
2. Incapable of or resistant to bending
   "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck";
   - rigid
    
3. Rigidly formal
   "the letter was stiff and formal";
   - starchy, buckram
    
4. Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
   "stiff convictions";
   - firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, unshakeable
    
5. Strong, vigorous
   "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
    
6. Having a strong physiological or chemical effect
   "a stiff drink";
   - potent, strong
    
7. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got stiff in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

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. To a great degree
   "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
    
2. In a stiff manner
   "his hands lay stiff";
   - stiffly

1. Reject outright and bluntly
   "The publisher stiffed his manuscript without even reading it";
   - 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: stiffer, stiffed, stiffest, stiffing, stiffs

See also: drunk, effective, effectiveness, effectual, efficacious, equipotent, fertile, formal, gone, immobile, inebriate, inebriated, inflexible, intoxicated, multipotent, potency, powerful, resolute, ripped [informal], skunked [informal], strength, strong, unbendable

Type of: adult male, body, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal], dead body, disdain, freeze off [informal], geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], man, pooh-pooh [informal], reject, scorn, sod [informal], spurn, turn down

Encyclopedia: Stiff, Matthew