stall

when a driver in manual transmission drops the clutch too fast or put the car in too high a gear at low speeds and causes the engine of the car to shut off.
d-mn you suck at driving stick. you just stalled out.
to stop agressive speech/behavior toward an individual. usually when such behavior is considered unjustified or questionable, “stall” is used as a request for the agressor to calm down the rash behavior.
“stall him out, it’s cool.”
all the above is true. operationally, a stall happens when you slow the airplane down and increase the angle of attack over the wing so it is no longer producing lift. student pilots practice doing them so they know how to get out.

it is not particularly dangerous to do stalls if you are careful about it, but i find them to be rather uncomfortable. there is a possibility of going into a spin if the pilot doesn’t pay attention. but that, too, can be recovered from.
the other day i did a power-off stall. i slowed the airplane down, applied full flaps, then reduced power. i raised the nose untill it buffeted, then the wing lost lift and the nose dipped. i lowered the nose some more and applied full power and flew away.
to go or wait somewhere for someone/something.
“stall it down to my gaff for a few cans”

“im on my way, stall it”
to square off and punch someone in the face. nyc usa
yo he tryed to punk me, i had to stall on him; yo you gona take that ? yo stall off!. i cant belive you stole on a cop, your nuts!.
the structure enclosing a toilet in a public restroom. there is no stall surrounding a urinal.
hide in the stall! the dos amigos are coming!
a loss of lift over a lifting body, usually caused by separation of the flow from the upper surface of the lifting body/ aerofoil.

common types of stall by flow separation include leading edge, trailing edge and thin aerofoil stalling.
the plan stalled, and fell wildly out of control.

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