noun
stiff
A dead person's body.
The detective calls the unidentified body in the alley a stiff.
Etymology
The adjective for rigidity became slang for a corpse. The name refers to the stiffening associated with death.
More examples
- They found a stiff in the abandoned warehouse.
- The two stiffs were taken to the morgue.
- Please don't call him a stiff; he was my brother.
Forms
stiff · stiffs