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doormats

doormats is the plural of doormat.

Meaning of doormat

Noun

doormat (plural doormats)

  1. A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
    • Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) Someone who habitually yields to others' demands or mistreatment, failing to assert their own rights or interests.
    • He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
    Synonyms:
    bootlicker, simp

Questions about doormats

What is doormats the plural of?
Doormats is the plural of doormat.

Words near doormats in the dictionary

  1. doorman
  2. doormanship
  3. doormat
  4. doormat beard
  5. doormat beards
  6. doormats
  7. doormen
  8. doormice
  9. doormouse
  10. doornail
  11. doornails

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