stuff

1. (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.Examples: "What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?  He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands."; "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."informaluncountableusually

2. (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.Examples: "and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff."; "He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff."informalobsoleteuncountableusually

3. (informal) Unspecified things or matters.Examples: "I had to do some stuff."informaluncountableusually

4. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.Examples: "Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a gray stuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy."; ""And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business."; "She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses."Synonyms: matter, ingredients, constituents, corporeity, body, mass, material, matterarchaicuncountableusually

5. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.Synonyms: matter, ingredients, constituents, corporeity, body, mass, material, matterarchaicuncountableusually

6. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.Examples: "Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?"; "It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”"; "The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices)."Synonyms: doodad, thingamabob, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmickinformaluncountableusually