Definition of "stop-gap"

stop-gap

noun
plural stop-gaps
1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap
  Quotations
  [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.
  1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book IV, page 347
adjective
not comparable
1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap
verb
third-person singular simple present stop-gaps, present participle stop-gapping, simple past and past participle stop-gapped
1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap