End
Full stop
Full stop noun - A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
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- Similarly to how the Yanks use "period" to mean 'end of conversation, that's it', the Brits say "full stop" to say the same thing, e.g.
Source: Useful Notes / British English - Take a drink if an example is a sentence that doesn't end with a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark
Source: Drinking Game / TV Tropes -
Their epic battle at the end of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was probably the most homoerotic fight in the entire Final Fantasy series, full stop.
Source: Foe Yay / Video Games
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Full stop and End. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/full_stop
End & Full stop. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/full_stop>.
Full stop or End. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/full_stop.
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