stopper

CEFRB1

/ˈstɒp.ə/

noun

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A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
Someone or something that stops something.
A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

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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.
2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, page 28
“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?”
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX
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.
1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels, Random House, page 300
Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.
2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption
Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber
1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico

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