go-stop en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 고스톱 (goseutop), from English go + stop.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards, similar to the Japanese game of koi-koi.
Spot a group of old people playing cards in a park and chances are they're playing Go-Stop. Originally a card game from Japan, it's now a Korean tradition in its own right.
2012, Matthew Waterhouse, “Everything but the kitchen sink”, in Konglish: The ultimate survival guide for teaching English in South Korea, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 281:Flower card solitaire and go-stop, the most popular game, were ways some residents at the center passed the time and exercised their minds.
2023, Joshua D. Pilzer, chapter 3, in Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima", Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 53:They are used to play a game called Godori, or Go-Stop, the goal of which is to match the cards in your hand with the cards laid out on the table.
2021, Michelle Zauner, “Double Lid” (chapter 3), in Crying in H Mart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:People would meet up from around 1 a.m. onwards to drink or play the Korean playing card game "go-stop," or hwatu.
2024, Courageous Women Research Center / Magdalena House Collective, Our Lives, Our Space, 봄날의박씨, →ISBN, page 51:In Korea we used to play Hwatu, which means, literally, “the battle of the flowers”, but there were also other games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop.
2015, Anthony Horowitz, “ ‘Pick a Card...’ ” (chapter 10), in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN:
Translations (4)
ko 고도리 (Translations) · pl go-stop (Translations) · ko 고스톱 (Translations) · ja ゴーストップ (Translations)