Doorstop - What does it mean?
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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.
(jocular) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
* 2010 , Jack Hitt, Is Sarah Palin Porn?'', Laura Flanders (editor), ''At The Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right... and Why We Should Take It Seriously ,
(British) (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
(Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
* 2005 , , The Latham Diaries ,
* 2006 , Troy Bramston, The Wran Era ,
* 2010 , Anne Tiernan, Patrick Weller, Learning to Be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities ,
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(wikipedia doorstop)Noun
(en noun)page 206,
- Meanwhile, all the Democrats had to put forward that year was a doorstop called Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill .
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- And television dominates this place — just look at Beazley tossing around cans of tomato soup at his morning doorstops outside Parliament House.
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- The six o?clock news was regarded as the pivotal point in the day. As the news was beginning, often the Premier would make himself available for a doorstop press conference.
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- It was estimated, for example, that Treasurer Wayne Swan had given more than 250 interviews and doorstops by the end of his first year in office.