nonstop
[adjective, adverb non-stop; noun non-stop]
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- without a single stop en route.
- Informal. without a pause or interruption or without respite; continually: My back ached nonstop for three days.
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- a long-distance airline flight that makes no stops between the starting point and the destination.
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Origin of nonstop
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Related Words
round-the-clockconstantceaselesssteadyincessantunendinguninterruptedinterminablerelentlessunbrokenendlessunfalteringunremittingExamples from the Web for nonstop
Contemporary Examples
You might work on the same groove for five hours nonstop, some three-bar thing over and over.
Check prices at AA.com Other carriers also serve Madrid with nonstop flights.
So what lies behind the curtain of official Washington at the highest levels of government in a time of nonstop war?
“She was on Twitter nonstop, and a lot of what was coming back to her was very negative and critical,” said a family friend.
And it would mean that many more of us would be subjected to three months of nonstop political ads.
Historical Examples
Imagine a room where everyone shouted at the top of their lungs, nonstop, while setting off air horns.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory Doctorow
Three hundred miles per hour on a constant, nonstop flight across the rolling land.
ConsignmentAlan E. Nourse
nonstop
- done without pause or interruptiona nonstop flight
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