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Slam preventer
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doorstop
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stop that keeps open doors from moving [syn: doorstopper ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A doorstop (also door stopper , door stop or door wedge ) is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely. Alternatively, a doorstop can be a thin slat built inside a door frame to prevent a door from ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ They'd been using the encyclopedia as a doorstop . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Decker power sander or Sears Craftsman heavy-duty pressure-washer, unless you want to see it end up as a doorstop . ▪ His paper-weight and doorstop ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 (context jocular English) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. 3 ...
Usage examples of doorstop.
Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.
He either fried them so hard they could be used for doorstops, or boiled them so much they lost both flavor and texture.
Not the laundromat, but the drugstore had been wide open, the doors chocked with rubber doorstops to let in a little cool air-the power outage had killed their air conditioning, of course.
Then he flung the door violently inward against the doorstop with one of those gestures with or by which an almost painfully unflagging pre-ceptory of youth ultimately aberrates, and stood there saying, "Bayard.
Antique hunters were everywhere, stripping old farmhouses of their antique brass doorknobs and doorstops and forced-air register fittings, old pickle crocks—.
Leaning casually against the hut's doorframe, used as a doorstop, was a superb finished panel of inlaid veneers with a pentagon set in a circle.