go-stop

noun

A popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards, similar to the Japanese game of koi-koi.

Meanings

noungo-stop (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecard gamesA popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards, similar to the Japanese game of koi-koi.

    People would meet up from around 1 a.m. onwards to drink or play the Korean playing card game "go-stop," or hwatu.

    2024, Courageous Women Research Center / Magdalena House Collective, Our Lives, Our Space, 봄날의박씨, →ISBN, page 51
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    Spot a group of old people playing cards in a park and chances are they're playing Go-Stop. Originally a card game from Japan, it's now a Korean tradition in its own right.

    2012, Matthew Waterhouse, “Everything but the kitchen sink”, in Konglish: The ultimate survival guide for teaching English in South Korea, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 281

    In Korea we used to play Hwatu, which means, literally, “the battle of the flowers”, but there were also other games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop.

    2015, Anthony Horowitz, “ ‘Pick a Card...’ ” (chapter 10), in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN

    They are used to play a game called Godori, or Go-Stop, the goal of which is to match the cards in your hand with the cards laid out on the table.

    2021, Michelle Zauner, “Double Lid” (chapter 3), in Crying in H Mart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29

    Flower card solitaire and go-stop, the most popular game, were ways some residents at the center passed the time and exercised their minds.

    2023, Joshua D. Pilzer, chapter 3, in Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima", Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 53

Origin

  1. Englishgo
  2. Korean고스톱
  3. Englishgo-stop

Borrowed from Korean 고스톱 (goseutop), from English go + stop.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Japanese ゴーストップ
  • ゴーストップTranslations
Korean 고스톱, 고도리
  • 고스톱 (goseutop)Translations
  • 고도리 (godori)Translations
Polish go-stop
  • go-stopTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

go-stop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-stop

MLA

“go-stop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-stop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go-stop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-stop.

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