stiff (
http://definr.com/stiff)
adj 1: lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff
joints"; "stiff hairs"
2: not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
3: powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff
drink"
4: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff
and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn:
starchy,
buckram]
5: hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff
exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
[syn:
uphill]
6: of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an
uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" [syn:
stand-up]
7: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
guardsman stiff as a poker" [syn:
rigid]
8: slang for `drunk' [syn:
besotted,
blind drunk,
blotto,
crocked,
fuddled,
loaded,
pie-eyed,
pissed,
pixilated,
plastered,
potty,
slopped,
sloshed,
smashed,
soaked,
soused,
sozzled,
squiffy,
tiddly,
tiddley,
tight,
tipsy,
wet]
n 1: an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
2: the dead body of a human being [syn:
cadaver,
corpse,
clay,
remains]
adv 1: extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
2: in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [syn:
stiffly]