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.
“Listen up, you glorified doorstop! Try harder next time, or better yet, don't.”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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What's the little lizard gonna do with the bones? Hat? Doorstop?
“What's the little lizard gonna do with the bones? Hat? Doorstop?”
“Listen up, you glorified doorstop! Your thoughts are like a shuffled deck of blank cards—completely pointless.”
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(jocular) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
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[.]
“My cats make a similar noise playing with the spring doorstop.”
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(Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
The six o′clock news was regarded as the pivotal point in the day. As the news was beginning, often the Premier would make himself available for a doorstop press conference.
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