stahp

English

Verb

stahp

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Pronunciation spelling of stop.
   • 1993 March 23, Karen Kenny aka Mel, “Gay Scientists/Engineers”, in soc.motss‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 September 2025:

     Define what a "reasonable" response is to unceasing, unapologetic, increasingly aggressive misogyny. It certainly isn't an occasional cutesy posting from you to Melmud saying "Stahp that, you thilly thing!"

   • 1998 November 17, “Who started this?”, in soc.culture.african.american‎^[2] (Usenet):

     LOL!
     Stahp it! You're killing me!

   • 2020 August 4, Preeti Chhibber, Orientation (Marvel: Avengers Assembly #1)‎^[3], Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:

     KAMALA: omg stahp
     BRUNO: lol

   • 2021 December 14, Blair Babylon, Twisted (Scholarship Mafia)‎^[4], Malachite Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

     OMG stahp, @ModOMatic. You aren't 13 yo anyho.

   • 2022 January 11, J. Elle, Ashes of Gold (Wings of Ebony)‎^[5], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 178:

     Me: OMG STAHP! [emoji face]

Usage notes

• Chiefly used in the imperative.
• This may be a better choice than stooop to represent an elongated pronunciation of stop, even if the speaker's dialect distinguishes the two vowels, since the spelling stahp can only represent this one word.

Further reading

• “Stahp”, in Know Your Meme, website launched 2007
• Lucia Peters (6 May 2015), “Where Does "Stahp" Come From?”, in Bustle‎^[6], archived from the original on 12 January 2021.