doorstop

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.
  3. Eggcorn of doorstep. UK,nonstandard,proscribed
  4. 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.

词形变化

doorstops plural doorstopper alternative

词源

From door + stop.
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