Doorstop

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    a stop that keeps open doors from moving wordnet
  3. 3
    A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. humorous

    "Meanwhile, all the Democrats had to put forward that year was a doorstop called Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill."

  4. 4
    Eggcorn of doorstep. British, nonstandard, proscribed
  5. 5
    An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building. Australia

    "And television dominates this place — just look at Beazley tossing around cans of tomato soup at his morning doorstops outside Parliament House."

Etymology

From door + stop.

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