" stoppages "

 [ "stoppage" ]

1: A term used in an MMO known as Flysis, or Ace Online, or Space Cowboy Online, meaning "to stop" or "slow down". A rather retarded word in my opinion, but used nonetheless.

  * e.g.,  ... "I'm going too fast!" 

 [ "stoppage time" ]

1: Additional time added to the end of a soccer (football) game. Since soccer has a constantly running clock that stops for nothing, alot of "playing time" is wasted away for any these reasons: injuries, a goal scored and the celebration that follows, arguing with officials, substitutuons, red and yellow cards, and taking forever on throw-ins, free kicks, corner kicks and goal kicks. (as well as a few other posibilities)

  * e.g.,  ... Person 1: I wish that soccer had a clock that actually stops when a problem arrises or nothing is going on. 

 [ "stoppage time" ]

2: This added time ia supposed to make up for some of that wasted time.

  * e.g.,  ... Person 2: Yeah, that whole stoppage time thing doesn't make a lot of sense. 

 [ "stoppage time" ]

3: Stoppage time can be anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes long, but is not exact. It always just seems like the referee can stop the game randomy, and know one but him knows when the game will be final.

 [ "Stoppage Time" ]

1: The extension of a lecture/rehearsal, due to the fact that the teacher/coach feels that he/she has lost his/her time to his/her student's/player's excess noise/constant insults.

  * e.g.,  ... Mrs. Bledsoe timed the excess noise after the saxophone section stopped playing, and added it on to the end of rehearsal as stoppage time. 

 [ "The Stoppage Time Shivers" ]

1: The feeling of sudden nervousness while watching a soccer/football match and the clock hits 90 minutes. You feel this type of way because your team either needs to score a goal or needs to keep one out. This happens in the stoppage time added to the end of the game. This is quite possibly the most stressed a human can possibly be.

  * e.g.,  ... Parker: You okay? You're shaking. 

 [ "Stoppage" ]

1: The process of being stopped

  * e.g.,  ... wow that was some epic stoppage dude!