Meaning

9 senses
  1. Someone or something that stops something.

  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.

    Stöpsel

  4. (informal)Goalkeeper.

    He's the number one stopper in the country.

  5. (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. A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

  7. Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.

  8. A short rope for making something fast.

  9. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.

More definitions
  • (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
  • blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
  • a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
  • an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down

Examples

5 sentences
  1. This stopper does not fit the bottle.

    ruЭта пробка не подходит к бутылке.

    deDieser Verschluss passt nicht auf die Flasche.

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  2. Bringing up politics can be a conversation stopper.

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  3. That off color sentence was real conversation stopper.

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  4. Where's the stopper?

    deWo ist der Stöpsel?

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  5. An aggregate of this bark compressed into a stopper shape is forced into the anus as a treatment for piles.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
bung or cork:

Forms

plural: stoppers
Singularstopper
Pluralstoppers

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
bung:plugB1
Close in meaning
  • blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly:plugstopple
  • a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply:conversation stopper
  • an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down:show-stoppershowstopper

Antonyms

2 antonyms
rail transport:fastA1expressA2

Word family

24 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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