Stops
//stɒps// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of stop form-of, plural
- 2 a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their 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 wordnet
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of stop form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Example
More examples"Don't open before the train stops."
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