stops
Meanings
- 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
- the event of something ending;
- the act of stopping something;
- "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
- a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- the state of inactivity following an interruption;
- a spot where something halts or pauses;
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
- "the organist pulled out all the stops"
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
- a restraint that checks the motion of something;
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- come to a halt, stop moving;
- put an end to a state or an activity;
- stop from happening or developing;
- interrupt a trip;
- cause to stop;
- prevent completion;
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
- seize on its way;
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- render unsuitable for passage;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
Synonyms
- Michigan
- Chicago
- Newmarket
- boodle
- stop
- halt
- stoppage
- stopover
- layover
- arrest
- check
- hitch
- stay
- stop consonant
- occlusive
- plosive consonant
- plosive speech sound
- plosive
- period
- point
- full stop
- full point
- diaphragm
- catch
- blockage
- block
- closure
- occlusion
- discontinue
- cease
- give up
- quit
- lay off
- kibosh
- stop over
- break
- break off
- turn back
- contain
- hold back
- intercept
- end
- finish
- terminate
- barricade
- blockade
- block off
- block up
- bar
- hold on
Scrabble Score: 7
stops is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordstops is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stops is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
stops is a valid Words With Friends word