Adjective
Complete (intensifier).
Usage- attributive
- Informal
- not-comparable
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I'm also not sure that he's a full-stop lead guard, though. He might be more of a guard who needs to play next to a playing-making guard who can get his own shot, because that's something he'll struggle with early in his career.
And Hochman won’t say whether he voted for Trump. Early, however, is a full-stop Trumpster. He’s an unabashed conservative whom the Bonta team would love to run against in November.
Gaye was a full-stop genius, Townsend a fine songwriter, and “Let’s Get It On” is an objectively great song.
Verb
To completely stop.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Informal
- Rare
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Three touch and goes later, (and after a refresher on CTAF radio ops - announcing I'm on base when I'm really on downwind might confuse people), I full-stopped and taxied up to the little commuter terminal. CFI and the kids get out, and I'm on my own.
I full-stopped on the seventh landing, and taxied back to the ramp - I have a 10:00 meeting, and I'm thinking too much about that.
The cop made a rolling stop and went on through. She full-stopped, then drove up behind him, flashed her lights and tooted her horn.
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He'd come out and shout every week, and the group would continue to ignore him. Even when the letter to the sheriff, who wrote/called AAVC leadership, who lectured the group at the start of the ride, who then full-stopped the group there once, the next ride it was back to roll-through-as-usual, and the yelling.
The developers told everybody the hippies' remonstrating was just environmental extremism and they didn't want you to have a home on this beautiful prairie. THE responsible party that did know where homes were going in harms way and should've full-stopped the development idiocy: US Army Corps of Engineers*.