(finance) To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.

(idiomatic) A statement that no excuses will be made, that the speaker is going to take direct responsibility for matters, rather than pass the responsibility to higher authorities.

(Australia, informal) The annual Melbourne Cup horse race.

plural of ideographic full stop

plural of all-way stop

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stop and smell the roses

plural of felony traffic stop

(Australia, Britain, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). / (figuratively) A decisive end to something.

(colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

(phonetics) A plosive sound articulated with the glottis. / The glottal stop symbol, ʔ.