stops

IPA: stˈɑps

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

Examples of "stops" in Sentences

Right after the rain stops is a good time to be in the woods as they usually start feeding then.
A Homeland Security official who did not give his name stops traffic for pedestrians during a power outage Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in San Diego.
You were a means to an end; an additional stream of exposure to keep my name ringing, because when your name stops ringing, that means the game is over.
She stops as if she had been tremendously shocked, and a moment later the rattling of a latch-key in the inner door also stops_ JOHN _from going any further.
We expect that one of the issues that will come up in all of our stops is an opportunity to exchange views about what we are witnessing in terms of developments inside North Korea, he said.
The long VOT of these voiced stops would tend then to be reinterpreted in loanwords into Mid IE as _creaky stops_ which also have longer VOT what you are calling "ejective" according to Glottalic Theory.