Stops
nounid
126454·updated May 18, 2026verified
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
polysemous
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- boodlecatchcheckclosurediaphragmfull pointfull stophaltlayoverocclusiveperiodpointstopoverstoppage
- alternatephrasing
- Stop
- possessive
- Stops's
- pluralpossessive
- Stopses'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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
- §2
- the act of stopping something
- §3
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- §4
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- §5
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- §6
- a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- §7
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- §8
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- §9
- the event of something ending
- §10
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- §11
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
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