stop it

English

Verb

stop it (third-person singular simple present stops it, present participle stopping it, simple past and past participle stopped it)

  1. (chiefly imperative) Tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.

Usage notes

  • This is almost always imperative, and can even be classified as an interjection. The inflected forms such as stopping it are almost never heard.
  • The colloquial interjection sense may be reduced to simply stop.
  • The spelling stoppit is often found in written transcriptions of children's speech.

Interjection

stop it

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of shut up (“I don't believe it! no way!”)
    You're giving me the whole summer off, and a pay raise effective immediately when I come back? Stop it! You're too good to me!
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