stopper

/stˈɑpɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
2. a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
3. (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
   “if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump”
4. blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

verb

1. close or secure with or as if with a stopper
   “She stoppered the wine bottle”

Synonyms for stopper

• show-stopper
• showstopper
• conversation stopper
• plug
• stopple

Words that rhyme with stopper

• copper
• topper
• hopper
• chopper
• proper
• improper
• popper
• grasshopper
• shopper
• whopper
• cropper
• dropper
• leafhopper
• sharecropper
• bopper
• clopper
• eyedropper
• gropper
• kopper
• opper
• propper
• topor