The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CORK
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More clues leading to the result CORK
- Stop Labour only if the leader’s replaced
- Port, and what keeps it in the bottle?
- It closes the port
- Fragments of rock found in Ireland
- I’m surprised king is one preventing escape of 1D
- Port served at 1:00 or 10:00, going by the numbers?
- Stop in country’s southernmost county
- Joe leaves dog lead in Kildare, an Irish location
- Irish city‘s two-word reinterpretation of shamrock?
- City stop
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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 = cork.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CORK mean?
CORK noun- The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
- To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- To perform such a maneuver.
- Having the property of a head over heels rotation.