stiffs
n.pl.— «Once you have played first-team you never want to go back to the reserves. We had reserve teams with the likes of myself, Hugo Viana, Titus Bramble and Shola Ameobi in there. At times we had Pounds 60m worth of talent playing in the stiffs.» —“Stephen won’t have Cald feat” by Iain King The Sun (U.K.) Mar. 31, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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