What does stop cold mean?

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stop cold

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English

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Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

stops cold (present, singular) stopping cold (participle, present) stopped cold (participle, past) stopped cold (past)

stop on a dime

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