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stop-taps

stop-taps is the plural of stop-tap.

Meaning of stop-tap

Noun

stop-tap (plural stop-taps)

  1. A stopcock.
  2. (Wales) Last orders.
    • It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139

Questions about stop-taps

What is stop-taps the plural of?
Stop-taps is the plural of stop-tap.

Words near stop-taps in the dictionary

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

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