1. Miscellaneous unspecified objects
   "the trunk was full of stuff"
    
2. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
   "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread";
   - material
    
3. [informal] A person's movable possessions
   "did you take all your stuff?";
   - personal property, personal estate, personalty [formal], private property, belongings, clobber [Brit, informal]
    
4. Information in some unspecified form
   "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
    
5. Unspecified qualities required to do or be something
   "the stuff of heroes"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
    
6. A critically important or characteristic component
   "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
    
7. Senseless talk
   "don't give me that stuff";
   - stuff and nonsense [informal], hooey [N. Amer, informal], poppycock [informal], bollocks [Brit, informal]

1. (cooking) fill with a stuffing while cooking
   "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?";
   - farce
    
2. Fill tightly with a material
   "stuff a pillow with feathers"
    
3. Cram into a cavity
   "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
    
4. Press or force
   "Stuff money into an envelope";
   - thrust, shove, squeeze
    
5. Fill or become filled to the point of obstruction
   "My nose is all stuffed";
   - choke up, block
    
6. Eat excessively or gluttonously
   "She stuffed herself at the dinner";
   - gorge, ingurgitate [rare], overindulge, glut, englut [archaic], engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise [Brit], gourmandize, binge [informal], pig out [informal], satiate, gourmandise [Brit]
    
7. Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
   "stuff a bearskin"

Derived forms: stuffing, stuffed, stuffs

Type of: article, back up, belongings, bunk [informal], center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, core, cram, eat, essence, fill, fill up, force, foul, gen [Brit, informal], gist, heart, heart and soul, hokum [informal], holding, impregnate, info [informal], information, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meaninglessness, meat, nitty-gritty [informal], nonsense, nonsensicality, nub, object, physical object, pith, property, push, quality, saturate, substance, sum

Encyclopedia: Stuff, the Chinatown Kid