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US
/ˈstɑpɝ/
]
[ UK /stˈɒpɐ/ ]
[ UK /stˈɒpɐ/ ]
VERB
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close or secure with or as if with a stopper
She stoppered the wine bottle
The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers
NOUN
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(bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump - an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
How To Use stopper In A Sentence
- The defense desperately needs him to be the run stopper in the middle.
- The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
- Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker. 200 Weeks
- Trad climbers use friends, chocks, stoppers and other passive and active gear instead.
- It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number. Times, Sunday Times
- The products including cork floor tile, cork wall tile, cork sheet and roll, agglomerated cork stopper, granulated cork and other cork products.
- As the Cubs late-inning stopper in 1965, Abernathy led the majors with 84 appearances and 31 saves.
- And the Polish stopper admits he could be loaned to a Championship club. The Sun
- These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
- The scattering cells consisted of polished borosilicate vials with stoppers.