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• stuff the ballot box — US : to vote more than once in an election in order to help someone win Fans stuffed the ballot box for their favorite players. • • • Main Entry: ↑ballot box stuff the ballot box see ↑ballot box • • • Main Entry: ↑stuff …   Useful english dictionary

• stuff the ballot box — {v. phr.} To give more votes to a candidate in an election than there are people who actually voted for him. * /It is a crime to stuff the ballot box./ [ballot stuffing] {adj. phr.} …   Dictionary of American idioms

• stuff the ballot box — {v. phr.} To give more votes to a candidate in an election than there are people who actually voted for him. * /It is a crime to stuff the ballot box./ [ballot stuffing] {adj. phr.} …   Dictionary of American idioms

• Stuff — Stuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stuffing}.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. [ e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. [ e]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• stuff — [stuf] n. [ME stoffe < OFr estoffe < estoffer, prob. < Gr styphein, to pull together, tighten < styppe, tow, coarse cloth of flax or hemp: see STOP] 1. the material or substance out of which anything is or can be made; raw material 2 …   English World dictionary

• Stuff (magazine) — Infobox Magazine title = Stuff editor = Tom Dunmore (UK Editor in Chief) Fraser Macdonald (UK Editor) category = Men s, Lad s Mag frequency = Monthly publisher = Dennis Publishing, Inc. (U.S.) Haymarket (UK) total circulation = 92,672 (UK)… …   Wikipedia

• stuff — stuffless, adj. /stuf/, n. 1. the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff. 2. material to be worked upon or to be used in making something: wood, steel, and other stuff for building. 3. material of some unspecified kind: a… …   Universalium

• stuff — n. & v. n. 1 the material that a thing is made of; material that may be used for some purpose. 2 a substance or things or belongings of an indeterminate kind or a quality not needing to be specified (there s a lot of stuff about it in the… …   Useful english dictionary

• stuff — {{11}}stuff (n.) early 14c., quilted material worn under chain mail, from O.Fr. estoffe quilted material, furniture, provisions (Mod.Fr. étoffe), from estoffer to equip or stock, which according to French sources is from O.H.G. stopfon to plug,… …   Etymology dictionary

• stuff — [[t]stʌf[/t]] n. 1) the material of which anything is made 2) material to be worked upon or to be used in making something 3) material, objects, or items of some unspecified kind 4) property, as personal belongings or equipment 5) something to be …   From formal English to slang

• Box office bomb — For the album by Dramarama, see Box Office Bomb (album). The phrase box office bomb (also referred to as a flop) refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue regained by the movie studio.[citation… …   Wikipedia