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stuff

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Miscellaneous items; things; personal effects.

What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?  He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.

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The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.

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A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

"And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.

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Abstract substance or character.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff

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Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?

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Substitution for trivial details.

I had to do some stuff.

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Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.

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Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.

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A medicine or mixture; a potion.

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Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.

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A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

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Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

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