stop-and-go
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.40 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of stop-go.
Example Sentences
- "It is obviously very welcome, because it followed a period of 4 years of stop and go economic stagnation, so it does represent a major improvement, but by no means has this been an economic boom so far."
- "As we have shown in our analysis, the main traffic conditions are not related to congestion and the share of really congested stop-and-go traffic is far lower than in the studies supported by the automobile industry."
- "However, tennis is an intermittent, stop-and-go activity, and depending upon the skill level of the players the activity is not likely to be continuous at this intensity for the entire time of play."
- "They'll also hit you with unexpected check-raises in unlikely situations and maybe even throw stop-and-gos at you from the blind."
- "The stop-and-go is a play in which you call a raise from the big blind, and then push on any flop. In my opinion, the stop-and-go is another case of fancy play syndrome. I honestly can't remember the last time I used this play […]"