Cryptic crossword clue
Stop holiday, did you say? 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BRAKE

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The straight part

We know that "Stop" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case stop = brake.

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What does BRAKE mean?

1. A fern; bracken.

1. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

1. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
3. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

1. To bruise and crush; to knead
2. To pulverise with a harrow

1. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
2. The handle of a pump.
3. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
4. A baker's kneading trough.
5. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

1. To operate (a) brake(s).
2. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

1. A cage.
2. A type of torture instrument.

1. To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
2. To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
3. To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
4. To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
5. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
6. To ruin financially.
7. To violate, to not adhere to.
8. (of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
9. (of a spell of settled weather) To end.
10. (of a storm) To begin; to end.
11. (of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
12. To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
13. To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
14. To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
15. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
16. (of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
17. To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
18. To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
19. To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
20. To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
21. (of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
22. To change a steady state abruptly.
23. To suddenly become.
24. Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
25. Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
26. To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
27. :
28. (most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
29. To end (a connection), to disconnect.
30. (of an emulsion) To demulsify.
31. To counter-attack
32. To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
33. To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
34. To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
35. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
36. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
37. To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
38. To fall out; to terminate friendship.
39. To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
40. To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

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