go-stop

Borrowed from Korean 고스톱 (goseutop), from English go + stop.

go-stop (uncountable)

1. (card games, hanafuda) A popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards, similar to the Japanese game of koi-koi.
   • 2012, Matthew Waterhouse, “Everything but the kitchen sink”, in Konglish: The ultimate survival guide for teaching English in South Korea, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 281:

     Spot a group of old people playing cards in a park and chances are they're playing Go-Stop. Originally a card game from Japan, it's now a Korean tradition in its own right.

   • 2015, Anthony Horowitz, “ ‘Pick a Card...’ ” (chapter 10), in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN:

     In Korea we used to play Hwatu, which means, literally, “the battle of the flowers”, but there were also other games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop.

   • 2021, Michelle Zauner, “Double Lid” (chapter 3), in Crying in H Mart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:

     They are used to play a game called Godori, or Go-Stop, the goal of which is to match the cards in your hand with the cards laid out on the table.

   • 2023, Joshua D. Pilzer, chapter 3, in Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima", Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

     Flower card solitaire and go-stop, the most popular game, were ways some residents at the center passed the time and exercised their minds.

   • 2024, Courageous Women Research Center / Magdalena House Collective, Our Lives, Our Space, 봄날의박씨, →ISBN, page 51:

     People would meet up from around 1 a.m. onwards to drink or play the Korean playing card game "go-stop," or hwatu.