Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wedge inserted beneath a door to hold it open at a desired position.
- n. A weight or spring that prevents a door from slamming.
- n. A rubber-tipped projection attached to a wall to protect it from the impact of an opening door.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flange against which a door shuts in its frame.
- n. A device placed behind a door to prevent it from being opened too widely.
- n. A strip of carriage-lace, or metal, used to prevent a carriage-door from opening beyond a fixed point.
Wiktionary
- n. Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
- n. humorous A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
- n. UK (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
- n. Australia An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stop that keeps open doors from moving
Etymologies
- door + stop (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I see fuzzynuts the doorstop is here. hold that door fuzzy.”
“If these were released in doorstop editions, I’d buy multiple copies for the library immediately!”
“The book on my doorstop is the final copy of the ARC I received in January.”
“Once when I was young and had a 200k word doorstop of a novel.”
“So you started out writing a 200K-word doorstop, and abandoned it in favor of brevity.”
“So, is the Bible to be useful for anything other than a "doorstop" as one blogger said...”
“If possible, I need the kanji symbol for "doorstop," preferably one symbol.”
“I vacillated between "doorstop" and "jobs accounting" plus considering Biden's stupid, uncontrollable mouth and finally went with "jobs accounting.”
“Our local newspaper actually had the gall to use Obama's "doorstop" quote in their Sunday paper "quotable quotes" section, except they did not even correctly quote him.”
“The official transcript of a "doorstop" interview with Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her government's response to the Bradley Review of Higher Education, conducted just after she outlined that response at the recent Universities Australia Conference, casts some light on how an uncapped Australian university system will work.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doorstop’.
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Door Jam
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Adore doors
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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A sandwich by any other name. . .
hero, hoagie, gyro, wedge, submarine, torpedo, zep, poor boy, grinder, bahn mi, sammich, wrap and 10 more...
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