Noun
1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;
"coal is a hard black material""wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"2. miscellaneous unspecified objects;
"the trunk was full of stuff"3. informal terms for personal possessions;
"did you take all your clobber?"4. senseless talk;
"don't give me that stuff"5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something;
"the stuff of heros""you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"6. information in some unspecified form;
"it was stuff I had heard before""there's good stuff in that book"7. a critically important or characteristic component;
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"