stop off

— Phrasal Verb with stop

/stɒp/ verb (present participle stopping, past tense and past participle stopped)

Definition

› to visit a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else: We stopped off in Paris for a couple of days before heading south.

(Definition of stop off from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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