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What does fits and starts mean?

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Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Activity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions.
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We played in fits and starts and never really clicked and opened up, but we're happy with the points.
After hearing some fits and starts, we realized that the tape was chewed beyond repair.
By contrast, British pop, fuelled by speed and e, moves in fits and starts, breaks and loops, sudden surges, depressive longeurs and doublings-back.
It advances by fits and starts, and mainly benefits rich countries and populations.
It moves by fits and starts, through pangs of revulsion and flashes of revelation.
The British Crown, in the face of American unrest, allowed these French settlers, in fits and starts, to keep their language and their religion.

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