suction stop

1. 1.

   a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)

   Synonymsclick

   Broaderstop consonant

Questions about suction stop

What does suction stop mean?

suction stop means "a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)".

What is another word for suction stop?

Close synonyms include click. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suction stop a common word?

suction stop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.