Stops

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace, king, queen, and jack of separate suits taken from a separate deck; A player plays the lowest card of a suit in the hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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the act of stopping something

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an obstruction in a pipe or tube

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a restraint that checks the motion of something

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a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

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a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

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a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

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a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

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the event of something ending

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a spot where something halts or pauses

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the state of inactivity following an interruption

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unclassified

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
boodlecatchcheckclosurediaphragmfull pointfull stophaltlayoverocclusiveperiodpointstopoverstoppage
alternatephrasing
Stop
possessive
Stops's
pluralpossessive
Stopses'