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stiff-armed

stiff-armed is the simple past and past participle of stiff-arm.

Meaning of stiff-arm

Verb

stiff-arm (third-person singular simple present stiff-arms, present participle stiff-arming, simple past and past participle stiff-armed)

  1. To straight-arm.
    • You can either have a wild, exciting life stiff-arming God or a dull, boring one doing the go-to-church-God-thing.2003, Robert S. McGee, Jack Crabtree, The Search for Significance, page 127

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Questions about stiff-armed

What is stiff-armed the simple past and past participle of?
Stiff-armed is the simple past and past participle of stiff-arm.

Words near stiff-armed in the dictionary

  1. stiff up
  2. stiff upper lip
  3. stiff upper lippy
  4. stiff upper lips
  5. stiff-arm
  6. stiff-armed
  7. stiff-arming
  8. stiff-arms
  9. stiff-backed
  10. stiff-hearted
  11. stiff-leaf goldenrod

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