WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stops
    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]