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an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff" lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs" inflexible hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant" hard not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge" immobile powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink" strong extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff" incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker" inflexible of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" inflexible rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" formal in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" the dead body of a human being very drunk intoxicated |
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