"stopper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈstɒp.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈstɔp.ə/ [General-Australian], /ˈstɑ.pɚ/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-stopper.ogg [Australia] Forms: stoppers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ) Etymology: stop + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|stop|er}} stop + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} stopper (plural stoppers)
  1. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something. Tags: agent, form-of Form of: stop, someone or something that stops something
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-NFmhjJXx
  2. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling. Translations (type of knot): päätesolmu (Finnish), stopperi (Finnish), csomó (Hungarian), bloker [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-EEwX-H7W Disambiguation of 'type of knot': 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3. A bung or cork. Synonyms (bung): plug Translations (bung or cork): βύσμα (búsma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), тапа (tapa) [feminine] (Bulgarian), запушалка (zapušalka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tulppa (Finnish), Stöpsel [masculine] (German), dugó (Hungarian), dugasz (Hungarian), elzáró (Hungarian), stopallán [masculine] (Irish), stoipéad [masculine] (Irish), ⁧قپاق⁩ (kapak) (Ottoman Turkish), ⁧مانطار⁩ (mantar) (Ottoman Turkish), Propsel [neuter] (Plautdietsch), kizibo (Swahili), sumpal (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-2eTPnrKt Disambiguation of 'bung': 3 5 66 5 6 3 5 2 4 Disambiguation of 'bung or cork': 1 2 90 2 2 1 2 1 1
  4. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Football (soccer)
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-xbTHAZrx Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
  5. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Finance
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-j8afscVL Topics: business, finance
  6. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones. Categories (topical): Rail transportation Translations (train that stops on almost all stations): lähijuna (Finnish), személyvonat (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-veIPlg9U Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport Disambiguation of 'train that stops on almost all stations': 10 1 1 3 5 67 6 1 5
  7. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies. Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-hsnwF-br Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  8. (nautical) A short rope for making something fast. Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-iDMCxfGH Topics: nautical, transport
  9. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-noun-NqjD9f5g
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: local [rail-transport, railways, transport], stopping train [rail-transport, railways, transport]

Verb

IPA: /ˈstɒp.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈstɔp.ə/ [General-Australian], /ˈstɑ.pɚ/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-stopper.ogg [Australia] Forms: stoppers [present, singular, third-person], stoppering [participle, present], stoppered [participle, past], stoppered [past]
Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ) Etymology: stop + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|stop|er}} stop + -er Head templates: {{en-verb}} stopper (third-person singular simple present stoppers, present participle stoppering, simple past and past participle stoppered)
  1. To close a container by using a stopper.
    Sense id: en-stopper-en-verb-SULtSIUd

Inflected forms

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          "text": "He's the number one stopper in the country."
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          "ref": "January 15, 2011, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC",
          "text": "And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.",
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          "text": "Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher."
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          "ref": "1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels, Random House, page 300",
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          "ref": "February 22 2023, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption",
          "text": "Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.",
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        "participle",
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        },
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          "text": "The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud \"hic\"."
        }
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
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}
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        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "word": "fast"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "word": "restopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "stopperless"
    },
    {
      "word": "unstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "11 Bulletstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "barbecue stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "bottle stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "channel stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "conversation stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "crimestopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "doorstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "gobstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "heartstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "manstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "oysterman's stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "puckstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "ring stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "shot stopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "showstopper"
    },
    {
      "word": "stopper bolt"
    },
    {
      "word": "stopper knot"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ashley's stopper knot"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobacco-stopper"
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    {
      "word": "traffic stopper"
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      "word": "wine stopper"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX",
          "text": "“It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”",
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          "ref": "2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, page 28",
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        {
          "text": "Put a stopper in the knot."
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          "knot"
        ],
        [
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          "unravel"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We need a stopper or the boat will sink."
        }
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          "bung"
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          "cork"
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      ]
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Football (soccer)"
      ],
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          "text": "He's the number one stopper in the country."
        },
        {
          "ref": "January 15, 2011, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC",
          "text": "And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Goalkeeper."
      ],
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        [
          "soccer",
          "soccer"
        ],
        [
          "Goalkeeper",
          "goalkeeper"
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      "tags": [
        "slang"
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        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "soccer",
        "sports"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher."
        }
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        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
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        [
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          "commodity"
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        [
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          "futures market"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "finance"
      ]
    },
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        "en:Rail transportation"
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels, Random House, page 300",
          "text": "The local train was empty at midday. She changed at Yatton and caught a stopper into Bristol. There was an express calling at Exeter which left Bristol at twelve-forty-five and she caught it by the skin of her teeth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "February 22 2023, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption",
          "text": "Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones."
      ],
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        [
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          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "train",
          "train"
        ],
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          "station",
          "station"
        ],
        [
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          "origin"
        ],
        [
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          "destination"
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        "(rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Botany"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico",
          "text": "Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "botany"
        ],
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          "tree"
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        [
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          "genus"
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        [
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          "Eugenia"
        ],
        [
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          "Florida"
        ],
        [
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          "West Indies"
        ]
      ],
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        "(botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies."
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      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short rope for making something fast."
      ],
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        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
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          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "fast",
          "fast"
        ]
      ],
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        "(nautical) A short rope for making something fast."
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature."
      ],
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          "playspot"
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      "ipa": "/ˈstɒp.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈstɔp.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒpə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-stopper.ogg/En-au-stopper.ogg.mp3",
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      "tags": [
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      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "word": "local"
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      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "word": "stopping train"
    },
    {
      "sense": "bung",
      "word": "plug"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of knot",
      "word": "päätesolmu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of knot",
      "word": "stopperi"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "type of knot",
      "word": "csomó"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "type of knot",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bloker"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tapa",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тапа"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zapušalka",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "запушалка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "tulppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stöpsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "búsma",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "βύσμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "dugó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "dugasz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "elzáró"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stopallán"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stoipéad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "kapak",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "⁧قپاق⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "mantar",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "⁧مانطار⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Propsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "kizibo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "bung or cork",
      "word": "sumpal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "train that stops on almost all stations",
      "word": "lähijuna"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "train that stops on almost all stations",
      "word": "személyvonat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stopper"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stop",
        "3": "er"
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "stoppers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "stoppering",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "stoppered",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "text": "He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating."
        },
        {
          "text": "The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud \"hic\"."
        }
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        "To close a container by using a stopper."
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          "close"
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          "container",
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      "ipa": "/ˈstɒp.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/ˈstɔp.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɒpə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-stopper.ogg/En-au-stopper.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-stopper.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
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}

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