stop-and-go, a.
(stɒp ənd gəʊ)
Also stop and go.
[f. stop v. + and conj. + go v.]
1. = stop-go a. 1.
| 1926 G. Frankau My Unsentimental Journey xi. 145 St. Louis; where the men..have the most elaborate ‘stop and go’ signs for their traffic. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night viii. 177 Its modern bustle of cars and complication of stop-and-go lights. 1942 Policy on Rotary Intersections (Amer. Assoc. State Highway Officials) 1 There is discussion of design speeds, interweaving lengths, curves, geometric shapes, sight distance, roadway widths, cross slope, curbs, islands, lighting, stop-and-go control and special adaptations of rotary intersections. 1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam i. 61 Don't use your brain. Be a farmer holding a stop-and-go sign. |
2. = stop-go a. 2.
| 1943 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. (rev. ed.) iv. 329 No need to get tangled up in spasmodic stop-and-go traffic. 1972 Jazz & Blues Nov. 32/1 He also evinces real invention over the stop-and-go rhythms of Departure. 1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See vii. 94 His stop-and-go typing irritated Carella. |
3. = stop-go a. 3.
| 1961 Times 5 Jan. 11/5 The short-term ‘stop-and-go’ remedies of recent years..deal with the symptoms rather than the disease. 1961 Hansard Commons 7 Nov. 850 Before the right hon. Member for Monmouth we had the present Prime Minister as Chancellor. He was a ‘stop and go’ man. 1962 Listener 10 May 817/2 The new-found interest in planning in Tothill Street was a direct reaction to the stop-and-go policies of 1959 and 1960. |