stops

(noun, verb)

noun

1. 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

Similar word(s): boodle, chicago, michigan, newmarket

Definition categories: act, cards

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of stop