English Explanatory Dictionary

autostop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A coupon-based system of hitchhiking that operated in communist Poland from the 1950s until the 1990s.
noun
  1. An automatic stopping mechanism or system.
verb
  1. To stop automatically.

Word forms

autostop autostops autostopping autostopped

Etymology

From auto- (automobile) + stop.

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