"STIF" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Modified acronym of \"straight-identified faggot\". Punning on the slang sense of stiff, \"a conventionalist person\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "STIFs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "STIF (plural STIFs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
          "text": "If there's \"male hatred' in my book it's directed at those same attitudes in gay males who are […] still permeated with such solipsistic male assumptions, like those of our fathers and forefathers, that the world is for them alone and that it revolves around them, STIFFS, as they were once called early on when the movement had the word \"liberation\" in it: straight-identified faggots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes."
      ],
      "id": "en-STIF-en-noun-jG7D2nV6",
      "links": [
        [
          "gay",
          "gay"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, gay slang) A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "STIFF"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "LGBT"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "STIF"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Modified acronym of \"straight-identified faggot\". Punning on the slang sense of stiff, \"a conventionalist person\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "STIFs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "STIF (plural STIFs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English gay slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
          "text": "If there's \"male hatred' in my book it's directed at those same attitudes in gay males who are […] still permeated with such solipsistic male assumptions, like those of our fathers and forefathers, that the world is for them alone and that it revolves around them, STIFFS, as they were once called early on when the movement had the word \"liberation\" in it: straight-identified faggots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gay",
          "gay"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, gay slang) A gay man seen as exhibiting heterosexual manners or attitudes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "LGBT"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "STIFF"
    }
  ],
  "word": "STIF"
}