stiff
adj 1: lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff
joints"; "stiff hairs"
2: not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
3: powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff
drink"
4: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff
and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: {starchy},
{buckram}]
5: hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff
exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
[syn: {uphill}]
6: of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an
uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" [syn: {stand-up}]
7: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
guardsman stiff as a poker" [syn: {rigid}]
8: slang for `drunk' [syn: {besotted}, {blind}, {blind drunk},
{blotto}, {crocked}, {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pissed}, {pixilated},
{plastered}, {potty}, {slopped}, {sloshed}, {smashed}, {soaked},
{soused}, {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {tiddly}, {tiddley}, {tight},
{tipsy}, {wet}]
n 1: an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
2: the dead body of a human being [syn: {cadaver}, {corpse}, {clay},
{remains}]
adv 1: extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
2: in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [syn: {stiffly}]