Stiff-arm
verb (used with object), noun
1.
straight-arm.
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- Stiff as a board
Also, stiff as a poker. Inflexible, rigidly formal, unbending, as in This cloth is stiff as a board; what happened to it? or There he stood, stiff as a poker, unwilling to give an inch. The board in the first simile for rigidity is a slab of wood; the second, alluding to the iron implement […]
- Stft
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- Stiffer
adjective, stiffer, stiffest. 1. rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar. 2. not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold weather. 3. (of a person or animal) not supple; moving with difficulty, as from cold, age, exhaustion, or injury. 4. strong; forceful; powerful: […]
- Stiffly
adjective, stiffer, stiffest. 1. rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar. 2. not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold weather. 3. (of a person or animal) not supple; moving with difficulty, as from cold, age, exhaustion, or injury. 4. strong; forceful; powerful: […]
- Stiff-man syndrome
stiff-man syndrome n. A chronic, progressive but variable disorder of the central nervous system having no known cause and associated with fluctuating muscle spasms and stiffness.