stop sign

noun

1. a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stop sign¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

She’d stopped at the stop sign.

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On cue, Hernández came up clutch again, jumping on a slider from Sánchez that caught a little too much plate and roping it down the left-field line for a two-run double — the latter run coming when Edman ran through a stop sign at third base.

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The filing also alleges that the police treated Cervantes, who is gay and Latina, differently than the white woman driver who ran a stop sign and broadsided her car.

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Two weeks ago, fourth-grader Nadir Gavarrete was crossing the intersection at New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street in Koreatown on an e-scooter alongside his 19-year-old brother, Carlos, when both were struck by an alleged drunk driver turning left through a stop sign.

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The answer, at least for us, as our Waymo carried us gently down the city’s famous hills from stop sign to stop sign, was clear.

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