show-stopper

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If I committed a fix to a show-stopper bug without any tests at my day job I'd feel very amateur.

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an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down

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noun

an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down

noun

something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal; "she has a show-stopper of a smile"; "the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for show-stopper.

noun

an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down

noun

something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal; "she has a show-stopper of a smile"; "the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper"

Example sentences

If I committed a fix to a show-stopper bug without any tests at my day job I'd feel very amateur.

This whole fiasco happened two years ago, and I don't remember what the show-stopper was, but we decided not to use that collation.

Still, the compiler performance in Scala is perhaps my chief criticism, though hardly a show-stopper.

No, you can't get acceptable performance even if you limit yourself to just the identifiers in the current file and simple prefix-based fitering.# Why does YCM demand such a recent version of Vim?During YCM's development several show-stopper bugs were encountered in Vim.