autostop

See also: auto-stop

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ stop.

Noun

autostop (countable and uncountable, plural autostops)

1. (uncountable) A coupon-based system of hitchhiking.
   • 1960, Youth and Freedom - Volume 3, page 11:

     Youth organizations have given autostop activity their stamp of approval.

   • 1971, Marc Francis Roddin, Notes on a social history of hitchhiking, page 34:

     Autostop members have an advantage over other hitchhikers, because drivers of state cars are allowed to pick up only hitchhikers who display the blue rule book, and most of the cars belong to the state.

   • 2013, Diane P. Koenker, Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, →ISBN, page 238:

     Proponents of the system pronounced it a success, especially among the student youth. "The working class earns money and it can travel on buses or trains or airplanes, but students are the most happy, energetic people, and autostop is convenient for them," insisted one supporter in 1966.

2. (countable) An automatic stopping mechanism or system.
   • 2004, H. John Shammas, Intraocular Lens Power Calculations, →ISBN, page 95:

     The newest Prager shell features single handed immersion biometry, a Luer fitting to facilitate tubing changes, an autostop for exact manufacturer specified probe depth, and six centering guides to ensure perpendicularity.

   • 2012, Hima Reddy, The Trading Methodologies of W.D. Gann, →ISBN:

     Or you can utilize the autostop features of your trading software to help lock in most of the profit (onehalf to twothirds) of the current potential profit for the move.

   • 2013, Borja Merino, Instant Traffic Analysis with Tshark How-to, →ISBN:

     This is a really interesting option of Tshark since it allows us to specify an autostop condition, thanks to which we will not have to be present to manually stop a capture.

   • 2016, RJ Bailey, Safe From Harm, →ISBN:

     The autostop beams would detect people ahead and apply the brakes.

Verb

autostop (third-person singular simple present autostops, present participle autostopping, simple past and past participle autostopped)

1. (rare, of a machine) To stop automatically.

Translations

to stop automatically

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自停 (zìtíng)

Czech

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from autostop. By surface analysis, auto- +‎ stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯tostop]

Noun

autostop m inan

1. hitchhiking

Declension

Declension of autostop (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	autostop	autostopy
genitive	autostopu	autostopů
dative	autostopu	autostopům
accusative	autostop	autostopy
vocative	autostope	autostopy
locative	autostopu	autostopech
instrumental	autostopem	autostopy

Further reading

• “autostop”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “autostop”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “autostop”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
• “autostop” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.tos.tɔp/

Noun

autostop m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of auto-stop

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French autostop, pseudo-anglicism, from auto- (relating to cars) +‎ English stop; auto- +‎ stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.toˈstɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧stòp

Noun

autostop m (uncountable)

1. hitchhiking

Derived terms

• fare l'autostop (“to hitchhike”)
• autostoppista (“hitchhiker”)

Polish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from autostop. By surface analysis, auto- +‎ stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awˈtɔ.stɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔstɔp
• Syllabification: au‧to‧stop

Noun

autostop m inan

1. (transport) hitchhiking

   podróżować autostopem ― to hitchhike

Declension

Declension of autostop

	singular	plural
nominative	autostop	autostopy
genitive	autostopu	autostopów
dative	autostopowi	autostopom
accusative	autostop	autostopy
instrumental	autostopem	autostopami
locative	autostopie	autostopach
vocative	autostopie	autostopy

Derived terms

adjectives

• autostopowiczowy
• autostopowy

 

nouns

• autostopowicz
• autostopowiczka

 

Further reading

• autostop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• autostop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French auto-stop.

Noun

autostop n (plural autostopuri)

1. hitchhiking

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	autostop	autostopul		autostopuri	autostopurile
genitive-dative	autostop	autostopului		autostopuri	autostopurilor
vocative	autostopule			autostopurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• auto-stop

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎutostop/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧stop

Noun

àutostop m (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостоп)

1. hitchhiking

Declension

Declension of autostop

	singular
nominative	autostop
genitive	autostopa
dative	autostopu
accusative	autostop
vocative	autostope
locative	autostopu
instrumental	autostopom

Slovak

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from autostop. By surface analysis, auto- +‎ stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈautɔstɔp]

Noun

autostop m inan

1. hitchhiking

Declension

Declension of autostop (pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	autostop	autostopy
genitive	autostopu	autostopov
dative	autostopu	autostopom
accusative	autostop	autostopy
locative	autostope	autostopoch
instrumental	autostopom	autostopmi

Further reading

• “autostop”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Alternative forms

• autoestop

Etymology

Borrowed from French autostop, pseudo-anglicism, from auto- (relating to cars or regarding oneself) + English stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /autoesˈtop/ [au̯.t̪o.esˈt̪op]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

autostop m (plural autostops)

1. hitchhiking, hitch-hiking, hitching, thumbing a ride

   Synonym: bola

Derived terms

• autostopista/autoestopista

Further reading

• “autostop”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28