stuff

Noun

• a critically important or characteristic component
  • suspense is the very stuff of narrative
    

• information in some unspecified form
  • it was stuff I had heard before
    
  • there's good stuff in that book
    

• unspecified qualities required to do or be something
  • the stuff of heros
    
  • you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine
    

• senseless talk
  • don't give me that stuff
    

• informal terms for personal possessions
  • did you take all your clobber?
    

• miscellaneous unspecified objects
  • the trunk was full of stuff
    

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  • coal is a hard black material
    
  • wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
    

Verb

• fill with a stuffing while cooking
  • Have you stuffed the turkey yet?
    

• fill tightly with a material
  • stuff a pillow with feathers
    

• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
  • stuff a bearskin
    

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • She stuffed herself at the dinner
    
  • The kids binged on ice cream
    

• obstruct
  • My nose is all stuffed
    
  • Her arteries are blocked
    

• press or force
  • Stuff money into an envelope
    
  • She thrust the letter into his hand
    

• cram into a cavity
  • The child stuffed candy into his pockets
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stuff and nonsense , hooey , poppycock , clobber , material , farce , gorge , ingurgitate , overindulge , glut , englut , engorge , overgorge , overeat , gormandize , lug , choke up , block , thrust , shove , squeeze
• Antonyms: 
  unstuff , loosen up