Usually means: Dead bodies, often in crime.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiffs: Merriam-Webster
  2. stiffs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stiffs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Stiffs, stiff's, stiffs: Wordnik
  5. stiffs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Stiffs, stiffs: Wiktionary
  7. stiffs: Dictionary.com
  8. stiffs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Stiffs (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. stiffs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stiffs: Legal dictionary

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  1. stiffs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stiffs: Medical dictionary

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  1. stiffs: Idioms

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  1. stiffs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Stiff)

adjective:  (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
adjective:  (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
adjective:  (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
adjective:  (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
adjective:  (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
adjective:  Potent.
adjective:  (informal) Expensive, pricey.
adjective:  (informal) Dead, deceased.
adjective:  (slang, of the penis) Erect.
adjective:  Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
adjective:  (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
adjective:  (nautical) Keeping upright.
adjective:  (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
adjective:  (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
noun:  (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
noun:  (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
noun:  (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
noun:  (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
noun:  (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
noun:  (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
noun:  (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
noun:  (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
noun:  (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
verb:  To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
verb:  To cheat someone
verb:  To tip ungenerously.
verb:  (slang) To kill.
verb:  (informal) To be unsuccessful.
adverb:  (nautical) Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
noun:  A surname.
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