English Explanatory Dictionary

call it stumps

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To decide to end an activity; to call it a day.

Word forms

call it stumps calls it stumps calling it stumps called it stumps

Etymology

A figurative use of the cricket expression stumps (“the close of play when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires”).

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