stop-off

[stop-awf, -of] /ˈstɒpˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

noun

stopover.

Origin of stop-off

1865-1870

First recorded in 1865-70; noun use of verb phrase stop off

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Faix, yer ticket reads straight through, wid no stop-off priv'leges whatever.

Desert Conquest
A. M. Chisholm

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