a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
"The players gathered around the table to play stops, where they raced through sequences of cards from jack down to ace hoping to win the pot."
plural of stop
"The train stations have multiple stops along their route."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stop
"The bus stops at every intersection on its route."
In plain English: To stop means to come to an end or begin again after pausing for a short time.
"The bus stops at every corner on its way to the city center."