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  • 31stiff — adj. & n. adj. 1 rigid; not flexible. 2 hard to bend or move or turn etc.; not working freely. 3 hard to cope with; needing strength or effort (a stiff test; a stiff climb). 4 severe or strong (a stiff breeze; a stiff penalty). 5 (of a person or… …

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  • 32stiff — adjective 1》 not easily bent; rigid.     ↘not moving freely; difficult to turn or operate.     ↘unable to move easily and without pain. 2》 not relaxed or friendly; constrained. 3》 severe or strong: they face stiff fines.     ↘(of a wind) blowing… …

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  • 33Stiff (professional wrestling) — To be stiff in professional wrestling is to hit an opponent with force. This could be the result of a shoot, but some wrestlers have worked stiffly throughout their careers.Stiffing can also be the act of a wrestler intentionally trying to cause… …

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  • 34Stiff Upper Lips — Infobox Film name = Stiff Upper Lips caption = director = Gary Sinyor producer = Nigel Savage Babs Thomas Stephen Margolis Keith Richardson Bobby Bedi Ricky Posner Nigel Savage writer = Paul Simpkin and Gary Sinyor starring = Sean Pertwee… …

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  • 35stiff — [1] Not easily bent or turned. As opposed to a rigid object, a stiff object does not break when subjected to bending stress, and implies a certain degree of flexibility; a bridge, for example, is stiff, not rigid, and steel panels are inherently… …

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  • 36stiff — adj. 1 difficult to bend/move VERBS ▪ be, feel, lie, look, sit, stand ▪ She lay stiff and still beside him. ▪ become …

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  • 37stiff upper lip — noun self restraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief) the British like to keep a stiff upper lip • Hypernyms: ↑self restraint, ↑temperateness * * * noun : a determined attitude or effort in the face of trouble usually used… …

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  • 38stiff —    1. a corpse    Referring to the rigor mortis:     When anyone was killed they piled the stiffs outside the door. (Scribner s Monthly, July 1880)    In the 19th century also as a stiff one:     Would she stick it till she was a stiff un.… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 39stiff, you big —    In Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dick addresses himself as ‘you big stiff’. The term might more usually be used by a woman to a man, complimenting him on his physical size while implying that he was rather stupid at the same… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 40stiff — adj 1. rigid, firm, unpliable, inflexible, unmalleable, unbending, unyielding, resistant; impervious, impenetrable, impregnable, repelling, unassailable, rugged; brittle, crisp, dried out, Inf. stiff as a board. 2.(all of a person or animal)… …

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