"stop the presses" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stop the presses.ogg Forms: stops the presses [present, singular, third-person], stopping the presses [participle, present], stopped the presses [participle, past], stopped the presses [past]
Etymology: Originally referred to delaying the printing of a newspaper in order to change its content to accommodate the inclusion of late-breaking news. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} stop the presses (third-person singular simple present stops the presses, present participle stopping the presses, simple past and past participle stopped the presses)
  1. (idiomatic) An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: hold the phone, stop press Translations (imperative): stop trykpressen (Danish), pysäyttää painokoneet (Finnish), parem as máquinas (Portuguese), paren las rotativas (Spanish), stoppa pressarna (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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