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doorstopper

doorstopper noun: a doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.

Noun

doorstopper (plural doorstoppers)

  1. A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
  2. (humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
    • So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.2018, Joe Humphreys, Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress by Stephen Pinker review
  3. A gauge used in geophysics.

Forms of doorstopper

pluraldoorstoppers

Origin of doorstopper

From door + stopper.

Questions about doorstopper

What does doorstopper mean?
Doorstopper means a doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
What part of speech is doorstopper?
Doorstopper is a noun.
What is the plural of doorstopper?
The plural of doorstopper is doorstoppers.

Words near doorstopper in the dictionary

  1. doorsteppy
  2. doorsteps
  3. doorstone
  4. doorstones
  5. doorstop
  6. doorstopper
  7. doorstoppers
  8. doorstops
  9. doorward
  10. doorwards
  11. doorway

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