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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



... state of things, however, was provided for. I felt myself being pushed into a little room next the wardrobe-room. My companions followed, towed along in the same way. I heard a water-tight door, furnished with stopper-plates, close upon us, and we ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
... I have just shown you is not poison, but quite the reverse. I will prove this to you at once." And taking a tiny liqueur glass from a side table, he filled it with the strange fluid and drank it off, carefully replacing the stopper in ...
— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli
... safely as follows: A cork through which passes a short glass tube about 1 cm. in diameter is fitted air-tight into the tubule of a bell jar of 2 l. or 3 l. capacity. (A thick glass bottle with bottom removed may be used.) The tube is closed with a small rubber stopper and the bell jar filled with hydrogen, the gas being collected over water. When entirely filled with the gas the jar is removed from the water and supported by blocks of wood in order to leave the bottom of the jar open, as shown in Fig. 13. The stopper is ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson
... now every evening, I had locked my door, and then, being thirsty, I drank half a glass of water, and I accidentally noticed that the water bottle was full up to the cut-glass stopper. ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... called ember-or brand-tongs. They sometimes had a tobacco-stopper riveted in near the axis of the tongs, and thus could be easily distinguished from other kinds of tongs. An example in the Guildhall Museum, made of brass, and probably of late seventeenth-century date, has the end of one of the handles formed into a ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson


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