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stop it

stop it verb: tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.

Verb

stop it (third-person singular simple present stops it, present participle stopping it, simple past and past participle stopped it)

  1. (imperative) Tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.

Interjection

stop it

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of shut up (“I don't believe it! no way!”)
    • You're giving me the whole summer off, and a pay raise effective immediately when I come back? Stop it! You're too good to me!
    Synonyms:
    shut up

Synonyms of stop it

Forms of stop it

third-person singular presentstops it
present participlestopping it
past participlestopped it
paststopped it

Questions about stop it

What does stop it mean?
Stop it means tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.
What part of speech is stop it?
Stop it can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of stop it?
The past tense of stop it is stopped it.

Words near stop it in the dictionary

  1. stop down
  2. stop error
  3. stop errors
  4. stop in
  5. stop into
  6. stop it
  7. stop lamp
  8. stop lamps
  9. stop lead
  10. stop light
  11. stop lights

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