"stop a bullet" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stops a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopping a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "stop a bullet (third-person singular simple present stops a bullet, present participle stopping a bullet, simple past and past participle stopped a bullet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2015, Annie Burrows, A Mistress For Major Bartlett\n'Stopped a bullet, but Miss Mary, she reckons as how she knows someone what can patch him up.'"
        },
        {
          "text": "2024, Lane Metcalf, To Set a Prisoner Free\nHe stopped a bullet with the back of his head after it had gone through a stop sign. You could say he's lucky to be alive — the bullet expended most of its energy before it hit him."
        },
        {
          "text": "Frank G. Slaughter, In a Dark Garden\nI regret to add that he was but ill repaid for his loyalty — for he stopped a bullet when they fired the house and we were forced to run for our lives."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body."
      ],
      "id": "en-stop_a_bullet-en-verb-pTDSbWN0",
      "links": [
        [
          "shot",
          "shoot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop a bullet"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stops a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopping a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped a bullet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "stop a bullet (third-person singular simple present stops a bullet, present participle stopping a bullet, simple past and past participle stopped a bullet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2015, Annie Burrows, A Mistress For Major Bartlett\n'Stopped a bullet, but Miss Mary, she reckons as how she knows someone what can patch him up.'"
        },
        {
          "text": "2024, Lane Metcalf, To Set a Prisoner Free\nHe stopped a bullet with the back of his head after it had gone through a stop sign. You could say he's lucky to be alive — the bullet expended most of its energy before it hit him."
        },
        {
          "text": "Frank G. Slaughter, In a Dark Garden\nI regret to add that he was but ill repaid for his loyalty — for he stopped a bullet when they fired the house and we were forced to run for our lives."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shot",
          "shoot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop a bullet"
}