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stiff
adjective- of alcoholic liquor, potent or undiluted UK, 1813
- After a visit to the purling men’s room and a stiff drink at the bar, I started my return march. — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, p. 235, 1955
- drunk US, 1737
- It was at Edmond’s that I got stiff—for the first and last time. — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 135, 1951
- I’ll talk to you when you’re not half stiff. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 205, 1954
- Getting stiff on the courthouse steps while denouncing the Roman Catholic clergy was a feat which regularly attracted scoffers and true believers[.] — Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, p. 9, 1956
- “A guy I know comes along, he’s stiff” — George Higgins, The Digger’s Game, p. 52, 1973
- excellent BERMUDA
- — Peter Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
- frustrated; out of luck AUSTRALIA, 1917
From earlier sense as “broke, penniless”, 1898 (Australian National Dictionary). - I jolly near forgot their Easter eggs out I shot down the street and caught the little man who told me that if I’d left it another five minutes I would have been stiff. — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 52, 1961
- “Bad luck,” says Harry, shaking his head at Bung. I screw my nose • up and sneer triumphantly at Bung. “It just goes to show, you don’t have to be dead to be stiff, eh?” — William Nagel, The Odd Angry Shot, p. 67, 1975
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