"stop traffic" meaning in English

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    },
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      "form": "stopped traffic",
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        "past"
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      "form": "stopped traffic",
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      "expansion": "stop traffic (third-person singular simple present stops traffic, present participle stopping traffic, simple past and past participle stopped traffic)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer, archived from the original on 2022-10-20",
          "text": "She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11",
          "text": "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look good, but WOW!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Elle Kennedy, The Dare",
          "text": "The designer clothes, the waves and waves of blonde hair, a face that could stop traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive."
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          "admiration",
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        ],
        [
          "stunningly",
          "stunningly"
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          "physically",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-11-04",
          "text": "RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, traffic."
      ],
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          "stop",
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          "traffic",
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "word": "traffic stopper"
        }
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  "word": "stop traffic"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "stopping traffic",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "stopped traffic",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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          "ref": "1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer, archived from the original on 2022-10-20",
          "text": "She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11",
          "text": "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look good, but WOW!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Elle Kennedy, The Dare",
          "text": "The designer clothes, the waves and waves of blonde hair, a face that could stop traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive."
      ],
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        [
          "attract",
          "attract"
        ],
        [
          "astonished",
          "astonished"
        ],
        [
          "admiration",
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        ],
        [
          "stunningly",
          "stunningly"
        ],
        [
          "physically",
          "physically"
        ],
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          "attractive",
          "attractive"
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        "(informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive."
      ],
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        "informal"
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          "ref": "2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-11-04",
          "text": "RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, traffic."
      ],
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