Wiktionary
stop-start
a. intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
Usage examples of "stop-start".
The big black Tahoe was brought to a complete halt opposite Fort Washington and was reduced to a lurching stop-start crawl all the way under the George Washington Bridge.
The lead wags in both convoys, stop-starting in a stuttering procession, reached a point where they were about thirty yards apart when Hutter signaled to Tulk to stop.
The train would be still or stop-starting from 30th Street to near Overbrook, and I could hear them say names and sentences.
There may be marker sub-sequences, things like stop-start codons that indicate where something with meaning begins and ends.