1syllable
doorstop
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Definitions ofdoorstop
1noun
- 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.
- A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
- (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
- An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
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