stopper
/ˈstɔp.ə/
Misollar
- This stopper does not fit the bottle.
- That off color sentence was real conversation stopper.
- Bringing up politics can be a conversation stopper.
ot noun
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A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
Put a stopper in the knot.
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A bung or cork.
We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
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Goalkeeper.
He's the number one stopper in the country.
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In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.
fe’l verb
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To close a container by using a stopper.
He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.