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stoplight

noun

stop·​light ˈstäp-ˌlīt How to pronounce stoplight (audio)
1
: a light on the rear of a motor vehicle that is illuminated when the driver presses the brake pedal
2

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web At a stoplight, a police truck pulls up alongside with a dead man under a stray mat in the back. Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022 Just south of the stoplight, Ohms stopped, pulled Eli’s bike out from under his truck, threw it away behind a business, and then kept driving, the charging document states. Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2022 Previously, there wasn't much reason to visit Del Norte, the one-stoplight town longtime locals would jokingly refer as Dead Norte, but now a renaissance is under way — thanks to newcomers like Corey Hubbard and her husband, Ryan Methfessel. Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2022 In 2003, Selbee had recently retired and settled down with his wife, Marge, in the sleepy, one-stoplight town of Evart, Mich. (pop. Josh Rottenbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022 This tiny one-stoplight town is just a 13-mile drive from Grandfather Mountain, part of the United Nations’ Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve and home to the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery, opening this June. Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2022 The massacre begins with this sequence of Sons getting picked off one by one in broad daylight — in a motel room, at a coffee cart, at a stoplight. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 June 2022 The classroom of the outstanding Register’s Mr. Smith seems a kind of oasis of enlightenment for a one-stoplight town in northern Georgia (or maybe, we city slickers are just too quick to impose our own provincialism on rural America). Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 May 2022 Video footage released by the Boynton Beach Police Department shows a black vehicle beginning to drift from its lane and into the middle of the busy intersection as the stoplight turns red. Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of stoplight was in 1926

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