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stop traffic

stop traffic verb: to attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
    • She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament.1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022
    • "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look ^([sic]) good, but WOW!"2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, traffic.
    • RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing.2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022

Forms of stop traffic

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

Questions about stop traffic

What does stop traffic mean?
Stop traffic means to attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
What part of speech is stop traffic?
Stop traffic is a verb.
What is the past tense of stop traffic?
The past tense of stop traffic is stopped traffic.

Words near stop traffic in the dictionary

  1. stop the presses
  2. stop thief
  3. stop thrust
  4. stop thrusts
  5. stop to smell the roses
  6. stop traffic
  7. stop two gaps with one bush
  8. stop up
  9. stop valve
  10. stop valves
  11. stop word

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