full stop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/

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full stop (plural full stops)

1. (Australia, British, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa) The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
2. (figurative) A decisive end to something.
   • 2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian‎:

     [S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

• (indicating end of sentence) See period
• (marking an abbreviation) dot, point, -x

• full-stop landing
• ideographic full stop

Punctuation

• hard stop

full stop

1. (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

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• (and nothing less): and that’s final, hard stop, that’s that, it’s as simple as that, period (North America), end of