Noun

Singular stuff

Plural uncountable

stuff (uncountable)

1. Miscellaneous items; things.

   What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?

2. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
3. A material for making clothing; a textile, often especially a woollen fabric.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 147:

     She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.

4. Abtract substance or character.
   • c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar: Act 3, scene 2, 91–94

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

   • c. 1610 William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 156–157

     We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

5. (informal) Used as placeholder for material of unknown type or name.

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

6. (slang), (informal) Substitution for trivial details.

   I had to do some stuff.

Related terms

• stuff and nonsense
• stuffing

Stuff may refer to: items, things, or matter. Stuff may also refer to:

• Stuff (cloth), woven cloth or fabric, usually woolen (mainly United Kingdom)
• Stuffing, a substance which is often placed in cavities of food items
• Stuffed animal, a child's soft toy.
• Stuffed or preserved animals, created through the art of taxidermy

In co pop ting:

• Bit stuffing, the insertion of noninformation bits into computerized data
• As a verb, to stuff (compress) files using Stuffit

In music:

• Stuff (album), a 1997 album by Holly McNarland
• Stuff (band), a 1970s-80s fusion/rhythm and blues music group
• Stuff, a 1992 album by Bill Wyman
• "Stuff", a 2000 single by Diamond Rio from the album One More Day

In popular culture:

• Stuff (magazine), a men's magazine
• Stuff (novel), a 1997 novel by Joseph Connolly
• The Stuff, a 1985 horror/comedy film by Larry Cohen
• Stuff (film), a 1993 mini-documentary about John Frusciante's life
• "Stuff" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2007 episode of the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother
• A flying creature in the game Kya Dark Lineage who guides the heroine where to go and tells her what the next objective is.
• Stuff by Hilary Duff - a clothing line by the popular songstress.
• Stuff (book), a 2005 book by Jeremy Strong.

In sports:

• In baseball, "stuff" is sometimes used to describe a pitcher's repertoire of pitches and his ability to use those pitches effectively (e.g. "that pitcher has great stuff")