stall

Definition

  • noun: a small open counter or partially enclosed structure where things are displayed for sale
  • noun: a compartment for a domestic animal in a stable or barn
  • verb: to stop suddenly because of a problem
  • verb: to put into or keep in a stall
  • usually used in plural
  • synonyms: stand, station, stable

Examples

  • Our tickets are for seats in 'the stalls'. [=('US') 'the orchestra']

  • The airspeed got very low and the plane nearly 'stalled'.

  • She set up a 'stall' selling jewelry in the marketplace.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) looking like the Cookie Monster, whether they want to or not. And then, suddenly, it's the weekend, and from break of day hundreds of stalls appear out of nowhere, filling Portobello Road, right up to Notting Hill Gate. And wherever you look thousands of people are buying millions of antiques, (..)
    1999 Notting Hill