stiff
/stɪf/ verb C2- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily. · He stiffed me on the tip.· Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
- To cheat someone.
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To be unsuccessful.
He/she/it stiffs · Past stiffed · Past participle stiffed · -ing form stiffing
Verb forms
- Base form
- stiff
- He/she/it
- stiffs
- Past
- stiffed
- Past participle
- stiffed
- -ing form
- stiffing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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One arm was hanging out of the bed; from shoulder to elbow it was moulded after the arms of Germain Pillon’s “Graces,” but the fore-arm seemed to be slightly distorted by convulsion, and the hand, so delicately formed, was resting with stiff outstretched fingers on the framework of the bed.
Morcerf, usually so stiff and formal, accosted the banker in an affable and smiling manner, and, feeling sure that the overture he was about to make would be well received, he did not consider it necessary to adopt any manœuvres in order to gain his end, but went at once straight to the point.
ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold.
You’re quite as stiff
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