The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STOP which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2025.
Hit the brakes crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STOP | 75 % | 4 |
| SLOW | 13 % | 4 |
| SLAMON | 6 % | 6 |
| SLOWED | 6 % | 6 |
Why may STOP be the right solution?
The phrase "hit the brakes" is commonly associated with coming to a stop while driving, making "STOP" the right solution.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hit the brakes
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stop
- slow
- fade
- skid
- skidding
- hell
- brake
- slows
- applied
- applying
- jam
- reline
Crossword Answer definitions
STOP noun- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- An f-stop.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- To cease moving.
- To not continue.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To close or block an opening.
- (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To punctuate.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __
More clues leading to the result SLOW
- Street sign
- Highway warning
- Like molasses
- Snail-like
- __-pitch softball
- Not so fast
- Musically retarded
- Be cautious rounding a corner
- Not busy
- A bit thick
More clues leading to the result SLAMON
- Quickly apply, as brakes
- Apply forcefully
- Apply strongly, as to start braking
- Hit hard, as the brakes
- Apply forcefully, as the brakes
- Apply quickly, as brakes
- Apply suddenly
- Hit hard, as brakes
- Hit (the brakes)
- Apply with force