Stops - Definition

n 1: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace
and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a
separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in
his hand and successively higher cards are played until the
sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in
the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn:
Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]