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stopping into

stopping into is the present participle and gerund of stop into.

Meaning of stop into

Verb

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

  1. To briefly visit.
    • Stopped into a bar & tossed 2 quick ones down.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Questions about stopping into

What is stopping into the present participle and gerund of?
Stopping into is the present participle and gerund of stop into.

Words near stopping into in the dictionary

  1. stopping dead
  2. stopping distance
  3. stopping distances
  4. stopping down
  5. stopping in
  6. stopping into
  7. stopping it
  8. stopping lead
  9. stopping off
  10. stopping out
  11. stopping over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopping into (page history and authors); stop into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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