stop sign

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of stop sign

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Since then the school has made several changes, according to the suit, including a fence separating the pickup line from a nearby lawn, a foot pathway for pedestrians, and a stop sign in front of the pathway, among other changes.

From Los Angeles Times

Last year, a driver backed into his 12-year-old Yukon XL at a stop sign and drove off.

From MarketWatch

Pull up to a stop sign at the same time as a Waymo and it would wait, as if to say, “No, please, after you.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She’d stopped at the stop sign.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times