stiff
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9.1
- noun
- /stɪf/
- Slang
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- In a macabre twist, the film portrayed a scene where the main character stumbled upon a series of stiffs in the old mansion.
- a stiff for autopsy
- get stiffs
- a bunch of stiffs
Examples
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Quite a collection of stiffs you got down there.
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The place was a mausoleum filled with nothing but stiffs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Suppose our stiff was carrying some sort of disease.
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There were stiffs all over the floor.
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Someone found a couple of stiffs.
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You'd think so, since the stiff was sixty, but she was rich on her own.
Fiction book (2001) -
- We got 10 stiffs in total all from the Rizzo family.
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Counting the stiffs on the boat—which is now receding in the harbor—there must be well over a dozen dead.
Fiction book (1992) -
I saw several stiffs in the abandoned warehouse during the investigation.
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The detective reported that they discovered two stiffs in the alley behind the bar.
Synonyms
362
4.9
A dead body of a person
234
1.6
A person or animal that is no longer alive
171
6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
55
8.2
A dead human body used for medical study or teaching
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9.9
The human body in old writing, usually a dead body
An old word for a dead person
A dead body placed at a church before burial in old times
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant with upright rough stems, narrow leaves, and large purple flowers that lives for many years
- Specialized
A plant with clusters of small bristly blue flowers native to eastern North America
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun stiff for a dead body comes from the plain idea that a body becomes rigid after death, so a dead person is 'stiff' and people began to call a corpse 'a stiff'.