Stiff may refer to:
- Stiff, a characteristic used to describe people in the military or someone who appears disciplined
- Stiff, a human corpse
- Stiffness, a material's resistance to bending
- Stiff (novel), a novel by Shane Maloney in his Murray Whelan series
- Stiff (film), an Australian TV movie based on the novel, starring David Wenham
- Stiff (professional wrestling), how a wrestler attacks an opponent
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, a book by Mary Roach
- Stiff Records, a British record label
- Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF), an annual event
- Jimmy Stiff, former member of American rock band Jackyl
Famous quotes containing the word stiff:
“We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I’ll view the manners of the town,
Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
And then return and sleep within mine inn,
For with long travel I am stiff and weary.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)