ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Stage-door

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Stage-door is a verb meaning To ambush (an actor) at the stage door where they enter or leave a theatre, for example to ask for their autograph.

Meaning

To ambush (an actor) at the stage door where they enter or leave a theatre, for example to ask for their autograph.

Example Sentences

"[…] I stage-doored Phantom. Yeah, I did. My mom wanted to get everyone's autographs. Do I have your autograph?"
I have never stage-doored but Kendra was extremely sweet, and friendly (even though I was probably being really crazy and annoying).
Besides which, also B. S., or Before Stella, she pulled 'em in as a stock actress, perhaps the most stage-doored one ever seen on this West Coast.
I was being stage-doored. I tried to remember what I was supposed to do. Smile. Offer my autograph. I stepped forward. The eyes slid away from me. Of course. They didn't know who I was. ' Matthew! Over here!'

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