(chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap

(chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap

An automobile driving maneuver in which a driver slows down, but does not stop, at a stop sign.

(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly.

(computing) A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.

(computing) a word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is ignored when searches are conducted on a database, search engine, or the like.

(idiomatic) A small train station. / (politics) A brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering.

(idiomatic) Extremely brief and hurried.

(politics, intransitive) To make a brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering.

A drink of hot spirits and water