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stuff it

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  1. Take back something, as in As for that memo of yours, you can just stuff it. This idiom is used, often as an interjection, to express contempt or defiance. Presumably it is short for “Stuff it up your ass.” [Vulgar slang; 1950s]


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Duflock heard that the Monarch tractor “would bump into stuff, it would not stop fast enough,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

They might rub it with oil or place a ball in the pocket and stuff it beneath their mattress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

And the dancers, because they were cloaked in so much fabric and stuff, it was just really, really brutal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Instead of looking at the bigger picture by studying and celebrating an endangered species she knows little of, she intends to quash it and stuff it.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

I spear a dumpling with a single chopstick and stuff it into my mouth.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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