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. Arturo Azinian:

   You see, this keeps me healthy, if I don't work, the head stops working.

2. Didier Conrad:

   We didn't want to develop a character who would be based on her seductive side as we usually do with female characters in Asterix. Most of the time they are young attractive women who seduce Obelix and their role stops there.

3. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson:

   Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all.

4. Scott Walker:

   [ Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc. ] was confronted by a family of an undocumented worker in Scott Walker childhood hometown of Plainfield, Iowa during one of the final stops of his whirlwind presidential campaign launch tour on Sunday. Jose Flores, an undocumented immigrant who calls Wisconsin home, was accompanied by Jose Flores 13-year-old daughter Leslie and 7-year-old son Luis, both of whom were born in the United States and naturalized citizens … Shaking Flores ’ hand, Scott Walker said Jose Flores ‘ completely sympathize [ s ] with the situation you’re all in and others are in ’ but … ‘ The fact is, we’re a nation of laws, and unfortunately, the president last year, after saying 22 times before last year that he could n’t make the law himself, he said he was n’t the emperor … he decided to change the law even though the courts announced that you ca n’t do that. ’.

5. Shameeca Ruiz:

   It’s an abundance of needles, everywhere, all strewn about. It just never stops.

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