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Something to wipe your boots on
Answer for the clue "Something to wipe your boots on ", 7 letters:
doormat
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Word definitions for doormat in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: weakling , wuss ] a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering [syn: welcome mat ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
doormat \doormat\ n. a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering. [WordNet sense 2] Syn: welcome mat. (figurative) A person who is habitually abused, taken advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is physically weak; ...
Usage examples of doormat.
So now these footcloths, these doormats, all four of them ours, are parted.
The way Seria saw it-the obedients these men claimed were not exactly doormats.
A repeat of three bleeps conjured her standing on the doormat outside, ready with some excuse, bearing gifts and smiles.
Pots still on cold ashes, doormats rotting in doorways, tools lying beside half-finished jobs.
Leaving his newspaper to confide its black tidings to the fag ends in the wastepaper basket and his mail to gather what dust it wished upon the doormat, Neville the part-time barman flip-flopped away up the Swans twenty-six stairs to his cornflakes and a cup of the blackest of all black coffees.
The Tri-State Association wasn't a top league, but the Des Moines Hawks were one of the two or three best teams—and they were playing Keokuk, a doormat, tonight.
He hit box 5841-check under his doormat, grab the key, check his mail slot.
But to Madeline Sime remained the doormat: good for filling an evening on short notice, and for pumping up her ego when it lost pressure.
He orders the food he needs each day by means of a note left under the doormat, and the concierge takes the food up and leaves it outside his door.