stop sign
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- noun
- /stɑp saɪn/
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señal de stop
- You must come to a complete stop at the stop sign before continuing through the intersection.
- run a stop sign
- speed through stop signs
- traffic lights and stop signs
Like if you run a stop sign or you're going to get kicked out?
- Like if you run a stop sign or you're going to get kicked out?
- So we're driving and we get to the stop sign, but he doesn't stop.
- He'd be like, Hey, you see that stop sign way over there?
- So I'm sitting at the stop sign and I just go forward and I see him.
- lights on busy streets, but they don't have stop signs.
- So I'm hitting all the back roads right now with every single red light, with every stop sign, with every bump, speed bump.
- I still remember driving off of Mount Helix, coming to a stop sign and going, Oh my goodness, I didn't put on my Rolex.
- You're in such a hurry that you're prepared to, dare I say, cut corners and go through a stop sign or two.
- You know, there are lots of studies done in Europe about the, for instance, roundabouts instead of stop signs.
- You're driving, yet you live your life with no stop sign, no yield sign, no, no, no, no, no, no signals.
- They have The Walking man, the stop sign like the stop hand.
Examples
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You failed to come to a complete stop... at the stop sign back there on Elm Street.
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While driving, the report says, Anderson ran stop signs and red lights several times.
Blog text (25) -
And I like roll through this stop sign at the bottom of the hill.
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You were asked about a stop sign, and now you believe you saw a stop sign.
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You go down over there until the stop sign.
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You just ran a stop sign.
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At the stop sign where Main met the highway, the Leather Man stood.
Fiction book (1996) -
So we're driving and we get to the stop sign, but he doesn't stop.
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She went right instead of left at the stop sign.
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A pickup truck pauses in front of us at a stop sign.
Fiction book (2002)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a traffic sign that tells drivers to come to a complete stop' is directly derivable from combining 'stop' (the event when movement ceases) with 'sign' (a board displaying information) as a noun–noun compound meaning 'a sign indicating stop'. This is a common, compositional pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun stop sign comes from a simple picture: a red sign with the word stop on it that tells drivers to stop at a road crossing. That's why it means 'to come to a complete stop' before going on.