Synonyms:
Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops
Meaning: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
Usage examples
"This stops right here, boys," he said.
But he stops; the private path by which we are to journey is, doubtless, at hand."
Get down into the bottom and pull a sack over you, and do not get up until the car stops."
The organist has certain keys and stops which he manipulates to produce his harmonies and effects.
His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek.
This increasing abstemiousness, a sign of decrepitude, slackens and at last stops the work of the spinnerets.
Suddenly the nightingale up in the thicket becomes silent, stops in the middle of its highest trill, and begins to snarl.
"Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die."
"There's an express from the north stops at Rugby at six o'clock, sir. You might meet that, if you left Shorncliffe by the 4:35 train."
Reginald had left the selection of a feeding-ground to her womanly intuition, but he chose the wine himself, knowing that womanly intuition stops short at claret.