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non-stop, a., n., and adv.
[non- 4 or 5 b.]
A. adj. That does not stop; spec. of a railway train or other conveyance: that travels between two (usually distant) places without stopping at intermediate ones; of a journey, etc.: made or done without a stop; of a variety show or the like: in which there is no interval between the various acts.
1903Work 11 July 364/1 The L. & N.W. Railway long non-stop run..presents no difficulty. 1904Windsor Mag. Dec. p. ix (Advt.), Awards gained for Glasgow to London non-stop trials. 1910Punch 15 June 441/2 Platelayer (to passenger who has jumped from the London-Plymouth Non-stop Express). Jumped aht? did yer.—Wof for? 1914Whitaker's Almanack 1915 822/1 Britannia trophy awarded to Capt. Longcroft, R.F.C., for non-stop flight Montrose to Farnborough. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xv. 192, I was fairly tired, having swung a practically non-stop shoe from shortly after dinner till two a.m. 1932Sunday Express 3 July 17/6 Of all the people in non-stop variety, the one I should most hate to annoy is Veronica, the dancer. She can do fifty high kicks in twenty-five seconds. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Jan. 44/1 A job as chorus girl in a very undressed non-stop revue. 1957Economist 28 Dec. 1120/2 The sum total of his economics is that a non-stop increase in money wages is..a Good Thing. 1967G. F. Fiennes I tried to run a Railway vii. 86 Averages of 75 m.p.h. for the non-stop business expresses. 1973‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog i. 9 The party will be out to sea. A seventy-two hour trip, way the hell out, a non-stop party. 1973Country Life 23 Aug. 476/2 The Windmill Theatre..became famous as the home of live, non-stop revue.
B. n. A non-stop train; a non-stop journey or run; (see also quot. 1925; obs. slang).
1909Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/1 The innovation and growth of ‘non-stops’ upon the Metropolitan and District electric lines. 1911Motor Cycle 27 Apr. 428/1 He..has now made six successive non-stops. 1922V. Woolf Jacob's Room ix. 183 The hordes crossing Waterloo Bridge to catch the non-stop to Surbiton. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 210 Nonstop, a, a trench expression used of a long range shell passing high overhead. 1957Railway Mag. Jan. 22/2 Thus the non-stops to and from Sheffield were suspended. 1958J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 202 They..caught the first non-stop to Willesden Green.
C. adv. Without stopping.
1920‘Ixion’ Motor Cycle Remin. 15 The beastie [sc. a motor cycle] did the outward journey non-stop. 1927Daily Tel. 14 June 11/3 The second attempt to fly non-stop to India. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 9 The test pilot..flew the aircraft non-stop from Moscow to Baku and back. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait xvii. 147 We were talking non-stop. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 447 One station in New York (WBAI) gave the whole Der Ring des Nibelungen in 17 hours non-stop. 1965W. Soyinka Road 21 Have you known any other driver take an oil-tanker from Port Harcourt to Kaduna non-stop since Muftan died? 1968M. Bragg Without City Wall x. 112 Both he and Richard went on non-stop about London, their friends, politics, anything that came up. |