Doorstop

Quick meaning: Doorstop is a noun meaning (humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

Meaning

(humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

More Meanings

1. (British, proscribed, nonstandard) Eggcorn of doorstep.
2. 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.
3. (Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.

Example Sentences

Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do[.]

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

It was estimated, for example, that Treasurer Wayne Swan had given more than 250 interviews and doorstops by the end of his first year in office.

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.

Word Forms

• doorstops
• doorstopper

Synonyms for doorstop

Depending on context, synonyms include doorstopper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doorstopper, doorstone, doore, dern, door knob, doorsill.

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