stocking stuffer

1. 1.

   a small Christmas present included in the Christmas stocking

   Synonymsstocking filler

   BroaderChristmas present

Questions about stocking stuffer

What does stocking stuffer mean?

stocking stuffer means "a small Christmas present included in the Christmas stocking".

What is another word for stocking stuffer?

Close synonyms include stocking filler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stocking stuffer a common word?

stocking stuffer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.