Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. put-down, mocked, denigrated.

1923

Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 165: He didn’t simply look stuffed when they met.

2. defeated, ruined, exhausted; drunk [stuff v.¹ (5)].

1927		‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 463: stuffed, Spent.
1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 253: Without surprise we’re stuffed. There’s no moon and he can’t see us coming.
1974		D. Ireland Burn 118: Give an Abo one good punch and he’s stuffed.
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 14: (Vince bangs the phone up and down) forsie: Vince!! Don’t hit the thing, you’ll break. . . vince: (Exasperated) Also stuffed – jeez! [...] It’s out of order.
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 122: [S]he had the big Queenslander stuffed for a comeback.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 109/2: stuffed exhausted, ruined, dead drunk.
1992		M. Coleman Fatty 50: [H]e’d get [...] really shagged out. He’d come up to me on the field and say, ‘That’s it, Fatty, I’m stuffed. I can’t go on’.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 128: Related closely to insults are other negative aspects of our informal speech, particularly terms concerned with inefficiency, obsolescence, failure, and uselessness. These include [...] stuffed.
1999		Guardian Rev. 23 Oct. 5: The first time we get a Viagra overdose in here, we’re stuffed.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].
2023		D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 194: ‘I’m stuffed. Haven’t slept much the last few nights’ [ibid.] 200: ‘It’s my back’s stuffed, not my brain’.

3. (Aus.) broken.

2021

P. Papathanasiou Stoning 72: ‘Lock’s stuffed’ [...] ‘No-one’s ever come to fix it?’.