stop-gap

A form of stopgap — That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.

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Meanings

nounstop-gap (plural stop-gaps)

plural stop-gaps

  1. UKalternativeAlternative form of stopgap.

    [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.

    1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 347
adjectivestop-gap (not comparable)
  1. UKalternativenot comparableAlternative form of stopgap.
verbstop-gap (third-person singular simple present stop-gaps, present participle stop-gapping, simple past and past participle stop-gapped)

present singular third person stop-gaps · participle present stop-gapping · participle past stop-gapped · past stop-gapped

  1. UKalternativeAlternative form of stopgap.
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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