stiffing
- 1Present participle and gerund of stiff.
The customer was stiffing the staff again, walking out without paying the full check.
Stiffing contractors on the final invoice can land a company in court.
Note
One form does two jobs here. After be it builds the progressive (they were stiffing the waiter), and on its own it names the act and can stand as the subject of a sentence. In its money senses the object is the person shortchanged, such as a waiter, a landlord or a contractor, whether the offense is skipping out on a bill or leaving a meager tip. A slang use meaning "to kill" shares the spelling, so context decides.
stiffing is a form of stiff
stiff, verb: To fail to pay what one owes someone, especially by leaving in a hurry. Full entry
- Spelling
- stiff → stiffing: add -ing
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