Usually means: Police stop and question briefly.
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  1. Terry stop: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Terry stop)

noun:  (US, law enforcement) The brief detention of a person by the police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest.

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