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stop-start

stop-start adjective: intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.

Adjective

stop-start (comparative more stop-start, superlative most stop-start)

  1. Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
    • It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport
    • Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.2008 March 21, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times

Synonyms of stop-start

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Forms of stop-start

comparativemore stop-start
superlativemost stop-start

Questions about stop-start

What does stop-start mean?
Stop-start means intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
What part of speech is stop-start?
Stop-start is an adjective.

Words near stop-start in the dictionary

  1. stop-off
  2. stop-over
  3. stop-overs
  4. stop-phrase
  5. stop-phrases
  6. stop-start
  7. stop-tap
  8. stop-taps
  9. stop-time
  10. stop-work
  11. stop-works

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