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
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Examples of stops
stops
The show was beset by numerous stops and starts, even a heckler in the audience.
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It just came down to us getting stops there late, and we were unable to do that.
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Some 1,200 extra laborers had been hired to shovel out crosswalks and bus stops.
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She will board it when it stops in Daytona Beach and disembark in St. Augustine.
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You can catch it at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza or at many downtown stops.
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Successful minor league teams pull out all the stops in entertaining their fans.
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The tour will have eight stops this year, in Wichita, Augusta, Derby and Newton.
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Let's remember that he's paid to do that job, hence why the buck stops with him.
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Sailing from Palma, it includes stops at Barcelona, Ibiza, Malaga and Gibraltar.
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- Come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
- The event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
- Discontinue: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
- The act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
- A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
- Stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
- Stop is a studio album by Don Lanphere released by Hep Records in 1983.
- Stop is a hard rock/funk album by a band consisting of Burdon, John Sterling, Kim Kesterson and Terry Ryan, known as the first incarnation of Eric Burdon Band, ever.
- Stop is a 2004 album by Franco De Vita. The major hit single was "Tu De Que Vas", however, "Ay Dios" and "Si La Ves", a collaboration with Sin Bandera, were also released as singles.
