Stops

//stɒps// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of stop form-of, plural
  2. 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. 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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