stiff

(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.

Đồng nghĩa: firm, stark

(figuratively)(figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.

(of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.

(colloquial)Harsh, severe.

He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.

Đồng nghĩa: brutal, heavy

(of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.

My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.

Potent.

a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze

Đồng nghĩa: powerful, strong

(informal)Expensive, pricey.

(informal)Dead, deceased.

Đồng nghĩa: departed, no more, asleep, at rest, blessed, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, resting, decomposed, defunct, departed, expired, extinct, fey, gone, good, inanimate, inert, kaput, killed, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, no longer with us, no more, perished, reposing, six feet deep, six feet under, stiff, unalive, unalived, wasted, whilom, with God

(slang)(slang, of the penis) Erect.

Đồng nghĩa: hard, tumescent

Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.

Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.

Đồng nghĩa: gooey, thickflowing, lentous, glutinous, gooey, slabby, stiff, syrupy, thick, thickflowing, treacly, viscid, viscose, viscous

(cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.

beat the egg whites until they are stiff

(mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.

(nautical) Keeping upright.

(golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.

(professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.

(Canada, US, countable, slang, uncountable)(slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.

working stiff

(countable, slang, uncountable)A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.

She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.

(countable, slang, uncountable)A cadaver; a dead person.

Đồng nghĩa: anatomy, body, cadaver, carcass, carrion, corpse, corse, DB, dog meat, dust, lich, offal, relics, reliquiae, remains, stiff, worm food, bod, body, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma

(countable, slang, uncountable)A flop; a commercial failure.

(US, countable, slang, uncountable)A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.

(US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable)(US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.

(countable, uncountable)(blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.

(countable, slang, uncountable)(finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.

(countable, slang, uncountable)(prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.

To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.

He stiffed me on the tip.

Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.

To cheat someone.

To tip ungenerously.

(slang)To kill.

(informal)To be unsuccessful.

(nautical) Of the wind, with great force; strongly.

(dated, slang)Very thoroughly.