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What does stuff mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stuff? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
  2. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  3. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
  4. Abstract substance or character.
  5. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
  6. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
  7. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
  8. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  9. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  10. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  11. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
  12. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
  2. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
  3. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
  4. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  5. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
  6. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
  7. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  8. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  9. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  10. (computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
  11. (reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Interjection
  1. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.
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