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stiff
noun- a corpse US, 1859
- While he’s struggling with a big pine box the end falls out and a stiff slides halfway out, conking him on the skull. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 316, 1946
- Get this stiff outta here. It’s a bring down for my live patients. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 36, 1957
- The homicide lieutenant said, “Well, let’s take a look at the stiffs.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 26, 1959
- Looks more like a morgue to me. Those pool tables are the slabs they lay the stiffs on. — The Hustler, 1961
- What about the stiffs in your apartment? — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 38, 1963
- A funeral detail. Wolfe is gonna escort a stiff home. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 178, 1970
- It’s a flamin’ stiff!!! In his birthday suit too, the dirty bastard!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Cart the stiff in and I’ll turn over your daughter. — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
- ALYSSA: Two months before she’s going to graduate, he’s got this job digging graves, and he comes across ... HOLDEN: A stiff. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- an ordinary person; a person who conforms US
- He goes, oh it is going round the sixth form that you two are becoming lesbians, and he said, no, really, he goes I don’t believe it but you know that the “stiffs”–straight people–do. — Shane J. Blackman, Cool Places, p. 214, 1998
- in any endeavour, a disappointing, poor performer US, 1978
- The horse he had was a stiff, a real pig from Canada. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 154, 1973
- — Bill Shefski, Running Press Glossary of Football Language, p. 104, 1978
- a nonplayer in a gambling establishment US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 291, 1979
- a poor tipper US
- A stiff is a guy who comes down with a hundred or two hundred, whacks you for $1,000 or $1,500 and won’t give you a tip. — Edward Lin, Big Julie of Vegas, p. 202, 1974
- a disagreeable person who is likely to try to cheat US, 1882
- You can smell them. The big tippers, the stiffs, the trouble makers. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- a tramp; a hobo UK, 1899
- The street is a little too fast, flighty and noisy for the old-time bums and stiffs. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 32, 1951
- in an illegal betting operation, a person who has agreed to pose as the head of the operation to protect the actual head in the event of a police raid and arrest US
- — Life, p. 39, 19 May 1952
- an unskilled pool player US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 231, 1993
- in horseracing, a horse that is favoured to win but is not ridden in an effort to win US
- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 149, 1947
- in pool, the cue ball left with no easy shot US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 231, 1993
- a worthless cheque US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 211, 1950
- in the usage of telephone swindlers, a payment by check US
- — American Speech, pp. 150–151, May 1959: “Notes on the cant of the telephone confidence man”
- a clandestine letter; in prison, a letter smuggled into, out of, or between prisons UK, 1900
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 110, 1996
- in blackjack, a card with a value of two, three, four, five, or six US
Combined with a ten-point card, a card that leaves the player in limbo. - But suppose you have a stiff–a two-card hand that is more than eleven and less than seventeen[.] — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 225, 1975
- — Thomas F. Hughes, Dealing Casino Blackjack, p. 75, 1982
▶ the stiff
money for or correspondence to a prisoner, passed to a prison warder by a prisoner’s friend or relative US, 1875- [A]nd for what is known as “the stiff”, the money which his friends, outside, will bung the screws to pay for his snout [cigarettes] and other little creature comforts. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 52, 1956
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