pit stop

See also: pit-stop and pitstop

English

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s NASCAR team executes a pitstop

Alternative forms

• pitstop, pit-stop

Etymology

From pit +‎ stop. First use appears c. 1915.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪt.stɑp/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pit stop (plural pit stops)

2. (motor racing) A stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle.
   • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2015:

     Alonso and Ferrari may well privately regret the decision to delay their second pit stop until two laps after Maldonado made his on the 24th of 66 laps.

4. (informal) A brief stop for fuel, rest or refreshment during an automobile journey.

   I had to make a couple of pit stops along the way from Cadiz to Santiago de Compostela to give myself a break.

6. (informal) A stop during any pedestrian or automobile travel for any utilitarian personal purpose, especially use of a bathroom.
8. (informal) A place that offers food, beverages, and other goods and services for those stopping on an automobile journey.
10. (informal, figuratively) A utilitarian stop on a figurative journey.

Derived terms

• internet pitstop
• truck stop

Descendants

• → Polish: pit stop

Translations

stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel

• Afrikaans: kuipestop
• Catalan: aturada a boxs f
• Dutch: pitstop (nl) m, pitsstop (nl) m
• Finnish: varikkopysähdys, varikkokäynti
• French: arrêt au stand m
• German: Boxenstopp (de) m
• Polish: pit stop m inan
• Portuguese: parada nos boxes (pt) f
• Spanish: parada en boxes f, parada técnica f
• Swedish: depå (sv) c

brief stop for fuel, rest or refreshment during an automobile journey

• Dutch: plaspauze (nl) m or f, tankpauze m or f
• Finnish: tankkaustauko
• Polish: pit stop m inan
• Spanish: repechar (es) (verb)

See also

• pit stop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• stoppit, tip-tops, tiptops

Polish

Alternative forms

• pit-stop

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pit stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit ˈstɔp/
• Syllabification: pit stop

Noun

pit stop m inan

1. (motor racing) pit stop (a stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle)
2. (motor racing) pit (an area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race)
3. (colloquial, humorous, informal) pit stop (a brief stop for fuel, rest or refreshment during an automobile journey)

   Synonym: przystanek

Declension

Declension of pit stop

	singular	plural
nominative	pit stop	pit stopy
genitive	pit stopu	pit stopów
dative	pit stopowi	pit stopom
accusative	pit stop	pit stopy
instrumental	pit stopem	pit stopami
locative	pit stopie	pit stopach
vocative	pit stopie	pit stopy

Further reading

• “pit stop”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pit stop”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)