STOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stops mean? 

• STOPS (noun)
  The noun STOPS has 1 sense:

1. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

  Familiarity information: STOPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops

Hypernyms ("stops" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

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