stop it
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]stop it (third-person singular simple present stops it, present participle stopping it, simple past and past participle stopped it)
- (chiefly imperative) Tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.
Usage notes
[edit]- This is almost always imperative, and can even be classified as an interjection. The inflected forms such as stopping it are almost never heard.