Usually means: Rigid, not easily bent, inflexible.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stiff: Merriam-Webster
  3. stiff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stiff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stiff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stiff: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stiff, stiff: Wordnik
  8. stiff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stiff, stiff: Wiktionary
  10. stiff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stiff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stiff: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stiff: Dictionary.com
  14. stiff (adj.), stiff (n.), stiff (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stiff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stiff (album), Stiff (novel), Stiff (professional wrestling), Stiff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stiff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stiff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stiff: Rhymezone
  20. stiff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stiff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Stiff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. stiff: FreeDictionary.org
  24. stiff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. stiff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. stiff: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stiff (disambiguation), stiff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stiff (disambiguation), stiff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiff: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stiff (disambiguation), stiff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stiff: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stiff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Stiff: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stiff: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Stiff: CASINO INDUSTRY GLOSSARY
  4. Stiff: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Stiff: Latitude Mexico
  4. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See stiffed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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