stopper

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From stop +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒp.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈstɔp.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑ.pɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

stopper (plural stoppers)

1. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:

     “It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”

   • 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, page 28:

     Often, in our conversations we encourage people to talk, or we manage to stop them. This can happen without our even thinking about it. Following is a list of conversation starters and stoppers.

2. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.

   Put a stopper in the knot.

3. A bung or cork.

   We need a stopper or the boat will sink.

4. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.

   He's the number one stopper in the country.

   • 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC‎:

     And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.

5. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.

   Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.

6. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
   • 1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels‎, Random House, page 300:

     The local train was empty at midday. She changed at Yatton and caught a stopper into Bristol. There was an express calling at Exeter which left Bristol at twelve-forty-five and she caught it by the skin of her teeth.

   • 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption:

     Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.

7. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
   • 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico:

     Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber

8. (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
9. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.

• (rail transport): local, stopping train
• (bung): plug

• (antonym(s) of “rail transport”): fast, express

stopper (third-person singular simple present stoppers, present participle stoppering, simple past and past participle stoppered)

1. To close a container by using a stopper.

   He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.

   The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".

• SPOTREP, Toppers, opprest, popster, toppers

stopper

1. present of stoppe

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔpər/

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• Rhymes: -ɔpər

stopper m (plural stoppers, diminutive stoppertje n)

1. stop (device to block path)

1792, from English stop.

• IPA^(key): /stɔ.pe/

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stopper

1. to stop, in regard to motors and machines

   Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau.

   A powerful foreign car stopped at the end of Ruysdaël Avenue, very close to the entrance to Monceau Park.

2. (colloquial) to take (a hit, a bullet)

   Il avait stoppé un coquet gnon derrière les oreilles, mais il n’était pas mort.

   He'd taken a nice, hard punch behind his ears, but he wasn't dead.

3. (colloquial) to stop

   Synonym: (more formal) arrêter

   il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente

   This permanent hostility must be stopped.

• “stopper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

stopper

1. present of stoppe