"stop-and-go" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, Building and Sustaining the Economic Recovery, page 10",
          "text": "It is obviously very welcome, because it followed a period of 4 years of stop and go economic stagnation, so it does represent a major improvement, but by no means has this been an economic boom so far.",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, ECMT Round Tables Traffic Congestion in Europe, page 26",
          "text": "As we have shown in our analysis, the main traffic conditions are not related to congestion and the share of really congested stop-and-go traffic is far lower than in the studies supported by the automobile industry.",
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          "ref": "2014, Marie Dunford, J. Andrew Doyle, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, page 555",
          "text": "However, tennis is an intermittent, stop-and-go activity, and depending upon the skill level of the players the activity is not likely to be continuous at this intensity for the entire time of play.",
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        "Alternative form of stop-go"
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          "ref": "2006, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online 2, page 149",
          "text": "They'll also hit you with unexpected check-raises in unlikely situations and maybe even throw stop-and-gos at you from the blind.",
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          "ref": "Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker (volume 1)",
          "text": "The stop-and-go is a play in which you call a raise from the big blind, and then push on any flop. In my opinion, the stop-and-go is another case of fancy play syndrome. I honestly can't remember the last time I used this play […]"
        }
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        "A combination of moves in which, before the flop is dealt, the player calls on an opponent's raise, and then after the flop is dealt, goes all in, regardless of whether the flop works with their hand."
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        "(poker) A combination of moves in which, before the flop is dealt, the player calls on an opponent's raise, and then after the flop is dealt, goes all in, regardless of whether the flop works with their hand."
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          "text": "It is obviously very welcome, because it followed a period of 4 years of stop and go economic stagnation, so it does represent a major improvement, but by no means has this been an economic boom so far.",
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          "ref": "Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker (volume 1)",
          "text": "The stop-and-go is a play in which you call a raise from the big blind, and then push on any flop. In my opinion, the stop-and-go is another case of fancy play syndrome. I honestly can't remember the last time I used this play […]"
        }
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        "(poker) A combination of moves in which, before the flop is dealt, the player calls on an opponent's raise, and then after the flop is dealt, goes all in, regardless of whether the flop works with their hand."
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