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full stop (plural full stops)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩ (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  2. (figurative) A decisive end to something.
    • 2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian‎:
      [S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”
  3. A complete stop.
    • 1978 February 26, Richard F. Shepard, “ABOUT LONG ISLAND: 7 Hours to Manhasset, and So Forth”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2025:
      The train moved slowly, very slowly, but at least it was moving, and the customers were grateful even for indecisive motion going their way. Just outside the Nassau border, in Queens, the train came to a full stop.
    • 2018 December 3, Chris Riotta, “How police stopped a speeding Tesla with a sleeping driver behind the wheel”, in The Independent‎, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 December 2018:
      What’s more, Mr Samek did not even wake up after the car had come to a full stop: officers were forced to wake hm up by knocking on the window, according to a police report that indicated the autopilot feature was likely on “considering the vehicle’s ability to slow to a stop when Samek was asleep.”
    • 2022 March 27, Laurie Clarke, “How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane”, in The Observer‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 March 2022:
      For example, the NHTSA forced Tesla to prevent the system from executing illegal “rolling stops” (moving slowly through a stop sign without ever coming to a full stop, while an “unexpected braking” problem is the subject of a current inquiry.

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full stop

  1. (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.
    We need more people to join IRC, full stop.

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full stop (third-person singular simple present full stops, present participle full stopping, simple past and past participle full stopped)

  1. Alternative form of full-stop.
    • 1996 May 3, Clive Pickles, “MY first solo this time”, in rec.aviation.misc‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 December 2025:
      The instructor didn't call the tower to let them know that a newbie was going out, so I told them myself that it was my first solo and to be REAL NICE TO ME. They were, and the controller congratulated me when I full stopped (the controller I got was the one I can always understand the best, which was good).
    • 1999 September 28, Zortek, “Titanic engines”, in alt.movies.titanic‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 December 2025:
      "The night lives on" from W.Lord reports that Titanic engines weren't full stopped after collision as seen in the movie, but were first ran full astern (just slowing down when Titanic hit the berg, and NOT yet running full astern), then stopped, then after few minutes ran half ahead and then half astern for such few minutes.
    • 2000 August 22, Roger Ditmeier, “T100 Crooked Steering Wheel”, in alt.autos.toyota.trucks‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 December 2025:
      Dealership INSISTS that the wheel is straight when I get the truck back, and once accused me of "full stopping" the wheel vigorously.
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