stuff

stuff
n
1. matter, material, substance, fabric, building blocks.
2. belongings, personal belongings, effects, personal effects, personal estate, personal possessions, chattels, properties, Inf. things, Sl. junk; baggage, bag and baggage, gear, impedimenta, dunnage, luggage, kit, duffel; Law. choses, Law. choses in action or possession, Law. choses transitory, Law. personalty; paraphernalia, accouterments, appurtenances, appointments, appendages, accessories, trappings; goods, goods and chattels, movables, movable articles, furniture.
3. essence, inner essence, quiddity, haecceity.
4. waste, rubbish, trash, litter, chaff, refuse, Dial. culch, Brit. Dial. raff.
5. nonsense, stuff and nonsense, twaddle, poppycock, humbug, bunkum, Sl. bunk, Sl. blah; balderdash, tom-myrot, Inf. rot, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; hogwash, Sl. horsefeathers, Sl. bosh, Brit. Sl. tosh; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge water, Sl. meshugaas; claptrap, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas. See also nonsense(def. 2).
6.Informal. trade, occupation, profession, job; field, sphere, area; facts, information, data.
v
7. crowd, cram, pack, press, jam, Inf. jam-pack.
8. line, pad; wad, fill.
9. gorge, engorge, glut, guttle, gluttonize, gormandize, make a pig or hog of oneself.
10. thrust in, drive in, ram in, shove in, push in, wedge in, run in, force in.
11. stop, stop up, obstruct, cork, bung, stanch, spile, plug, choke, block.

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