stuffing

Pluralstuffings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A tasty mix of bread, herbs, and other foods packed inside meat before cooking.

   She made stuffing with bread, onions, and sage for the holiday dinner.

   There was too much stuffing packed inside the chicken.

   Similardressing, filling, forcemeat

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The soft material put inside pillows, toys, and cushions to fill them out.

   Like the soft fluff inside a teddy bear.

   The old teddy bear lost its stuffing through a hole in the seam.

   She added more stuffing to the flat cushion.

   Similarpadding, filling, wadding, batting

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act of filling something by packing material tightly inside it.

   The stuffing of the mattress took the whole afternoon.

   Careful stuffing keeps the pillow from getting lumpy.

   Similarfilling, packing

   Oppositeemptying

4. 4
   verb

   Present participle of stuff. Use it when an action is happening right now.

   She is stuffing the turkey with breadcrumbs.

   They are stuffing envelopes for tomorrow's mailing.

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A heavy loss in a game or contest, where one side beats the other badly.

   Like losing a race by a mile, not just a step.

   The home team got a real stuffing on Saturday.

   Their best player was injured, so they took a stuffing.

   Similarthrashing, drubbing, trouncing, hammering, rout

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6. 6
   noununcountable

   The trick of repeating a word many times on a web page to rank higher in search results.

   Like shouting the same word over and over so people notice you.

   Search engines now punish sites that use stuffing to climb the rankings.

   He filled the page with stuffing, repeating "cheap flights" dozens of times.

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7. 7
   noununcountable

   A blend of oil and animal fat rubbed into leather to make it soft.

   Like rubbing lotion into dry skin to keep it soft.

   The saddler rubbed stuffing into the dry leather to soften it.

   Old boots last longer if you treat them with stuffing.

   Similardubbin, dressing

8. 8
   nounUSuncountable

   A legal trick where a company buys something that loses money on purpose to pay less tax.

   Like spending money on a bad deal just to avoid a bigger bill.

   The firm used stuffing to wipe out its tax bill for the year.

   Lawmakers moved to close the stuffing that big companies relied on.

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