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Stopper   /stˈɑpər/   Listen
Stopper

noun
1.
An act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down.  Synonyms: show-stopper, showstopper.
2.
A remark to which there is no polite conversational reply.  Synonym: conversation stopper.
3.
(bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit.
4.
Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.  Synonyms: plug, stopple.
verb
(past & past part. stoppered; pres. part. stoppering)
1.
Close or secure with or as if with a stopper.  Synonym: stopple.  "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"



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"Stopper" Quotes from Famous Books



... specimens liable to attack by insects, a small piece of blotting paper moistened with chloroform was inserted underneath the stopper in each bottle. Later on, bichloride of mercury was found ...
— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
... my thirst," said the Khoja, and he pulled out the stopper, on which the water rushed out with vehement force over the Khoja's head, and drenched him in ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... scrubbing it as if it had been linen for the wash, before putting it into the stewpan. When at last it was ready, Anton laid the table, placing beside the dish a three-footed plated salt-cellar, blackened with age, and a cut glass decanter, with a round glass stopper in its narrow neck. Then, in a kind of chant, he announced to Lavretsky that dinner was ready, and took his place behind his master's chair, a napkin wound around his right hand, and a kind of air of the past, like the odor of cypress-wood ...
— Liza - "A nest of nobles" • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... returned a few moments later with a well-filled canteen, in his mouth. Hastily Hal removed the stopper and poured some of the water down Chester's throat. Then he took a ...
— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes
... a gourd, in which something gurgles. Its smell, when the stopper is taken out, tells it ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid


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