stop-time
English
Noun
stop
-
time
(
plural
stop-times
)
(
music
,
music theory
)
An
accompaniment
pattern
interrupting
, or
stopping
, the
normal time
and
featuring
regular
accented
attacks
on the
first
beat
of each or every other
measure
,
alternating
with
silence
or
instrumental
solos
.