(law, law enforcement) Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.

A police action of this type.

Alternative form of whistle-stop

Pre-occluded; marked by the phonological process of preocclusion.

plural of stop light

The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

One of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in certain hydraulic works. Particularly used in canals as a temporary measure following a major leakage.

A train, bus or elevator that does not make all of the designated stops along its route.

plural of skip-stop

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stop at nothing