definition of
stiff

[1] #1 stiff n. an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff". wn

[2] #2 stiff s. powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze". wn

[3] #3 stiff s. [starchy, buckram] rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality". wn

[4] #4 stiff r. extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff". wn

[5] #5 stiff n. [cadaver, corpse, clay, remains] the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay". wn