Meanings
nouncomfort stop (plural comfort stops)
plural comfort stops
- A pause in a long road journey so that travellers can go to the toilet
Hunting rabbits was what gentlemen passengers were invited to do when stage coaches with lady passengers made a comfort stop.
1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Prairie Kid; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 56Synonyms: comfort break
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pause in a long road journey so that travellers can go to the toilet
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