stops
/stɒps/US/stɑps/
stops is the plural of stop.
stops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stop.
Meaning of stop
Noun
stop (plural stops)
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That stop was not planned.
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson...
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- door stop
Phrases with stops
- f stops
- stops by
- stops in
- stops it
- stops up
- bus stops
- pit stops
- stops off
- stops out
- tab stops
- toe stops
- dead stops
89 more phrasesFewer phrases
- fire stops
- flag stops
- flue stops
- full stops
- hard stops
- knee stops
- long stops
- mail stops
- plow stops
- reed stops
- rest stops
- stops cold
- stops dead
- stops down
- stops into
- stops lead
- stops over
- tram stops
- turn stops
- wage stops
- draft stops
- field stops
- flute stops
- Idaho stops
- organ stops
- short stops
- stops press
- stops short
- Terry stops
- train stops
- truck stops
- water stops
- buffer stops
- double stops
- felony stops
- gravel stops
- ground stops
- hockey stops
- plough stops
- safety stops
- solder stops
- string stops
- triple stops
- all-way stops
- comfort stops
- country stops
- glottal stops
- request stops
- rolling stops
- stops the job
- stops traffic
- suction stops
- traffic stops
- boulevard stops
- quadruple stops
- technical stops
- three-way stops
- California stops
- expression stops
- pretextual stops
- stops and frisks
- stops at nothing
- Waterhouse stops
- Californian stops
- stops the presses
- Chinese full stops
- floating bus stops
- pull out all stops
- stops the bleeding
- take out the stops
- pulls out all stops
- the buck stops here
- felony traffic stops
- how many stops until
- pulled out all stops
- when the music stops
- pulling out all stops
- stops someone's clock
- ideographic full stops
- pull out all the stops
- pulls out all the stops
- pulled out all the stops
- pulling out all the stops
- stops and smells the roses
- stops and smells the flowers
- stops two gaps with one bush
- the race that stops a nation
- stops someone in their tracks
- three stops short of Dagenham
Questions about stops
- What is stops the plural of?
- Stops is the plural of stop.
- How do you pronounce stops?
- Stops is pronounced /stɒps/ (UK).
Words near stops in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stops (page history and authors); stop (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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