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showstopper
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showstopper - A hardware or (especially) software bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable; one that absolutely has to be fixed before development can go on. Opposite in connotation from its original theatrical use, which refers to something stunningly *good*.


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Reilly play guitar-strumming cowpokes with a taste for raunchy jokes but no home on the range, and Kevin Kline's ex-private eye Guy Noir now guards the stage door against all manner of threats, including tycoon and show-stopper Tommy Lee Jones, who has come to bury rather than praise Keillor and gang.
A Prairie Home Companion by McCormick, Patrick / U.S. Catholic
This is a show-stopper issue," said Micky Tripathi, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, which will run the project.
Massachusetts aims for electronic health records system in five years by Chordas, Lori / Best's Review
Cons: He could use wittier writers, though: ``I'm your father - ask your mother'' is what passes for a laugh line here, and a lame mock ode to soccer is considered a show-stopper.
CRIT-0-MATIC by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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