OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41183

doorstop

Meanings (ES + gloss)
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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.
librote • mamotreto • tocho
A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
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.
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[.]
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