show-stopper









show-stopper


show-stopper or show·stop·per [shoh-stop-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  2. a spectacularly arresting or appealing person or thing: This bright plaid suit is a real show-stopper.

Origin of show-stopper First recorded in 1945–50 Related formsshow-stop·ping, show·stop·ping, adjective Examples from the Web for show-stopping Contemporary Examples of show-stopping

  • Throughout, the contestants must look perfect, arriving at the show with a wardrobe of show-stopping looks.

    All the Ways Contestants on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Have to Be Crazy Perfect

    Kelly Williams Brown

    April 29, 2014

  • But unlike Strauss-Kahn’s show-stopping shocker, the case against Lagarde is anything but sudden.

    Christine Lagarde’s No DSK

    Tracy McNicoll

    August 4, 2011

  • Natalia Vodianova closed the collection in a show-stopping liquid gold lamé mini-dress.

    Fashion Week Day 4

    The Daily Beast

    February 14, 2010

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