Definitions for stops
stops

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1. Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops(noun)

   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

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. Eric Butterworth:

   Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

2. Monta Ellis:

   We got stops, on the other end, my teammates found me when I was open. That was a great team, and this was a big win for us. Everybody refreshed their minds at the All-Star break, and everybody got locked in. We have had some tough losses, but we've stayed together.

3. Kris Kobach:

   Instead of walking out of class why don't you stay in class and spend the time studying the history of the Second Amendment. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

4. 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.

5. Patricia Heaton:

   I also love beauty products and I love fillers and Botox, if you do it so that you still look like yourself, you just look like your best self. We’ve all seen people who have gone way over the top with that stuff. Obviously, that’s not what you want to look like. I think in our industry, in particular, any actress who has had too much work done stops working because you start to look kind of strange, and the camera really picks up stuff.

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