go-stop
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.40 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Spot a group of old people playing cards in a park and chances are they're playing Go-Stop. Originally a card game from Japan, it's now a Korean tradition in its own right."
- "In Korea we used to play Hwatu, which means, literally, “the battle of the flowers”, but there were also other games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop."
- "They are used to play a game called Godori, or Go-Stop, the goal of which is to match the cards in your hand with the cards laid out on the table."
- "Flower card solitaire and go-stop, the most popular game, were ways some residents at the center passed the time and exercised their minds."
- "People would meet up from around 1 a.m. onwards to drink or play the Korean playing card game "go-stop," or hwatu."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: English
Word Breakdown
- Root: go