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- noun Plural form of
doorstop .
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Examples
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What sets A Song of Ice and Fire apart from other fantasy doorstops is that Martin is telling a much more adult tale.
10 Most Influential Fantasy Authors | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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"Prevention strategies, such as doorstops and other door design modifications, can help to reduce the number of door-related amputation injuries."
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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"Prevention strategies, such as doorstops and other door design modifications, can help to reduce the number of door-related amputation injuries."
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It's these lumpen imposters that the unenlightened scorn as doorstops, fit only to be used as footballs or regifted.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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It's these lumpen imposters that the unenlightened scorn as doorstops, fit only to be used as footballs or regifted.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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Some of the GOP's finest doorstops even promised to read the Pledge before election day, even as critics on the Left and Right -- especially the Right -- denounced the faux Contract as nothing more than the usual hoo-ha from the established parties.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010
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Some of the GOP's finest doorstops even promised to read the Pledge before election day, even as critics on the Left and Right -- especially the Right -- denounced the faux Contract as nothing more than the usual hoo-ha from the established parties.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010
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It's these lumpen imposters that the unenlightened scorn as doorstops, fit only to be used as footballs or regifted.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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We often think German bread is far too dense, too much, too thick, the kind that, when it grows stale, you can take an electric knife to and carve up for doorstops.
Brot und Käse Matt Potter 2011
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It's these lumpen imposters that the unenlightened scorn as doorstops, fit only to be used as footballs or regifted.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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