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doorers

doorers is the plural of doorer.

Meaning of doorer

Noun

doorer (plural doorers)

  1. Someone who doors ("to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian").
    • A new word has been coined in the Big Apple to cover an increasingly common cause of death or injury — doorers. That means someone opens the door of a stationary motor vehicle and sends a cyclist flying in to the path of a passing car or bus usually with dire consequences.2012 October 5, Tom Sullivan, “Distracted drivers lead to injured pedestrians”, in The Record, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2014

Questions about doorers

What is doorers the plural of?
Doorers is the plural of doorer.

Words near doorers in the dictionary

  1. doore
  2. doorea
  3. dooreas
  4. doored
  5. doorer
  6. doorers
  7. doores
  8. Doorey
  9. Dooreys
  10. doorflap
  11. doorflaps

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