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stops

/stɑps/noun1 syllable

Stops means: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.

Synonyms for stops4

noun, as in a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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What does stops mean?1

noun

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a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Stops in a sentence

  • When it stops raining, we will go for a walk.Olya
  • When money ceases to have value, the entire system stops working.mailohilohi
  • Hurry up, the train only stops here for a short while.AlanF_US
  • When it stops raining, let's go for a walk.CK
  • When the whistle blows, that means everyone stops what they're doing and listens.OsoHombre
  • This particular organ has eight stops, which control eleven ranks of pipes.Theocracy
  • When we speak, we don't actually use semicolons and full stops.Adelpa
  • When the rain stops, we'll go for a walk.Eldad

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