Definitions for stops
stops

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1. Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stopsnoun

   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 his 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

Matched Categories

1. • Card Game

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stops' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3353

Anagrams for stops »

1. posts

2. spots

How to pronounce stops?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say stops in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stops in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stops in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of stops in a Sentence

1. Rupert Murdoch:

   The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

2. Chad Wolf:

   I'm ready to pull my officers out of there if the violence stops.

3. Mwanandeke Kindembo:

   When the burning coal stops emitting the smoke, then you will surely understand that the fire does not always need the presence of the smoke.

4. Brett Callow:

   If the flow of cash stops, the attacks will stop.

5. Bruce Calhoun:

   It’s going to take all those folks to make their way here as often as they can — and not just one of these quickie stops.

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