Hard Stop
I've heard this one for a while, but it just struck me today as being a slangy term. "Hard stop" meaning a time when a meeting or event must end and cannot go beyond. "I have a hard stop at 3:30."I'm...
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I've heard it quite a lot over the years in the context of hard braking of a car or truck, and it's in an automotive dictionary with this sense:100megsfree4.com/dictionary/car-dich.htm#HardStopMy...
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The slam-on-the-brakes sense is the only one I have ever heard, and I would have thought it universal enough to be used per Ozzie's speculation - until Dave's post.
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The hard stop makes more since than to stop short, which I have also heard in reference to slamming-on-the-brakes.There was an episode of Seinfeld where the "move" was to "stop short and grab".
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In my part of the US, 'stop short' is what the guy that just rear-ended you says you did when what he means is that he was tail-gating you.
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The term is common in design of mechanical equipment, tooling, etc. For instance, a saw traveling on on arm may be software-controlled but have a 'hard stop' at a certain limit point, meaning there is...
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In college, our email accounts had a "soft quota" of 5mb and a "hard quota" of 25mb, meaning that you could exceed the soft quota for a few days or more, during which time you would get excessive...
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