stoplight
Americannoun
noun
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a red light on a traffic signal indicating that vehicles or pedestrians coming towards it should stop
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another word for brake light
Etymology
Origin of stoplight
Example Sentences
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Beckstrom grew up in a tiny community of homes cradled in the Appalachian Mountains on a ridge above a town of roughly 700 people that has the only stoplight in a county of 8,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
The annual parade and festival, which is in its fifth year, is held in La Center, a southwest Washington town of 4,300 that doesn’t have a stoplight.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2025
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department said the “completely stopped” vehicle was waiting at the stoplight at the time of the collision and that officers reported to the scene around 5:12 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
Maybe it will be easier to accept, to pretend to use my phone anytime I’m waiting at a stoplight, physically unable to run away from peering eyes until the light flashes green.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2024
Marcus smiles and jerks the truck to the left so that we don’t hit a fallen stoplight.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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