Definitions for stopper

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stopper stop·per

Spelling: [stop-er]

IPA: /ˈstɒp ər/

Stopper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in stopper (eopprst).

Definitions for stopper

noun

1. a person or thing that stops.
2. a plug, cork, bung, or other piece for closing a bottle, tube, drain, or the like.
3. Informal. something or someone that commands attention, as an unusual window display or a flamboyant person.
4. Cards. a card in a suit that prevents the successive taking of all tricks in the suit by the opponents.
5. Baseball Slang. a formidably and consistently effective pitcher counted on to win, as a team's best starting pitcher or a superior reliever often called on to preserve a victory; pitching ace.

verb (used with object)

1. to close, secure, or fit with a stopper.

Origin of stopper

First recorded in 1470-80; stop + -er¹

Examples for stopper

She pulled aside the "stopper" of newspaper and thrust in the stick.

Afterwards use emery and water, and grind the stopper into the bottle.

The Churchwarden calmly put the stopper in his bottle and restored it to his pocket.

"Yes, but don't let's have a stopper over all, Tom," replied his father.

"No, I thank you," answered Howe, putting the stopper back into the bottle.

Hurriedly I shot out the remainder of the stopper of straw, and crept from the hole.

(1 )Turn the stopper through at least one revolution in each direction.

It was a brass lamp with a hole and a stopper in the side of the bowl.

He took the stopper out of the decanter and deliberately raised it to his nostrils.

It was just like it is when you pull the stopper out of the bathtub.