n.

1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;
   material
   
   • coal is a hard black material
   • wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
2. miscellaneous unspecified objects
   
   • the trunk was full of stuff
3. informal terms for personal possessions;
   clobber
   
   • did you take all your clobber?
4. senseless talk;
   stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
   
   • don't give me that stuff
5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something
   
   • the stuff of heros
   • you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine
6. information in some unspecified form
   
   • it was stuff I had heard before
   • there's good stuff in that book
7. a critically important or characteristic component
   
   • suspense is the very stuff of narrative

v.

1. fill completely
   
   • The child stuffed his pockets with candy
2. press or force;
   thrust, shove, squeeze
   
   • Stuff money into an envelope
   • She thrust the letter into his hand
3. obstruct;
   lug, choke up, block
   
   • My nose is all stuffed
   • Her arteries are blocked
4. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;
   gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
   
   • She stuffed herself at the dinner
   • The kids binged on icecream
5. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
   
   • stuff a bearskin
6. fill tightly with a material
   
   • stuff a pillow with feathers
   • The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist
7. fill with a stuffing while cooking;
   farce
   
   • Have you stuffed the turkey yet?