Word.ws English Dictionary

stops-and-searches

stops-and-searches is the plural of stop-and-search.

Meaning of stop-and-search

Noun

stop-and-search (plural stops-and-searches or stop-and-searches)

  1. A police action of this type.
    • Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion."1996 April 5, "The Baer Truth: It Was A Shameless Judicial Cave-in, New York Daily News (retrieved 20 August 2013)

See all 2 meanings of stop-and-search

Questions about stops-and-searches

What is stops-and-searches the plural of?
Stops-and-searches is the plural of stop-and-search.

Words near stops-and-searches in the dictionary

  1. stops the presses
  2. stops traffic
  3. stops two gaps with one bush
  4. stops up
  5. stops-and-frisks
  6. stops-and-searches
  7. stopsign
  8. stopsigns
  9. stopstreet
  10. stopstreets
  11. stopt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stops-and-searches (page history and authors); stop-and-search (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stops-and-searches.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stops-and-searches. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.