stop traffic

present singular third person stops traffic · participle present stopping traffic · participle past stopped traffic · past stopped traffic

1. informalTo attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.

   The designer clothes, the waves and waves of blonde hair, a face that could stop traffic.

   2020, Elle Kennedy, The Dare

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   She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament.

   1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022

   "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look ^([sic]) good, but WOW!"

   2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, traffic.

   RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing.

   2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022