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heart-stopper

heart-stopper is the alternative form of heartstopper.

Meaning of heartstopper

Noun

heartstopper (plural heartstoppers)

  1. (informal) Something highly exciting.
    • One, “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You,” was a heartstopper in the film “Garden State.”2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of heart-stopper

pluralheart-stoppers

Questions about heart-stopper

What is heart-stopper the alternative form of?
Heart-stopper is the alternative form of heartstopper.

Words near heart-stopper in the dictionary

  1. heart-shaped
  2. heart-shattering
  3. heart-spent
  4. heart-splitting
  5. heart-stirring
  6. heart-stopper
  7. heart-stoppers
  8. heart-stopping
  9. heart-stoppingly
  10. heart-throbbing
  11. heart-thumping

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