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stop sign

noun

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



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Word History and Origins

Origin of stop sign1

First recorded in 1930–35
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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.

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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.

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“They used to call me Stop Sign Holden, ’cause I made my district safe for pedestrians,” Holden said.

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The Dodgers’ bats, meanwhile, managed just two early runs off Olson; the first via a Freddie Freeman solo home run in the first, the second when Andy Pages ran through a stop sign from third-base coach Dino Ebel in the second inning but scored on a wayward throw to the plate.

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"I was in the middle of the street as I was crossing in the crosswalk, and he started to go through the stop sign at that time, and then suddenly saw me stopped, waved, smiled, held up both hands, you know, like in a surrender," she recalled.

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