stop sign

American  

noun

1. a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.

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Etymology

Origin of stop sign

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Pull up to a stop sign at the same time as a Waymo and it would wait, as if to say, “No, please, after you.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She’d stopped at the stop sign.

From Salon

On cue, Hernández came up clutch again, jumping on a slider from Sánchez that caught a little too much plate and roping it down the left-field line for a two-run double — the latter run coming when Edman ran through a stop sign at third base.

From Los Angeles Times

The answer, at least for us, as our Waymo carried us gently down the city’s famous hills from stop sign to stop sign, was clear.

From Slate

There is a stop sign on Cleon Avenue where it meets Saticoy Street, which has a center turn lane but no traffic signal or stop sign at the location.

From Los Angeles Times