doorstop

noun

door·stop ˈdȯr-ˌstäp

: a usually rubber-tipped device attached to a wall or floor to prevent damaging contact between an opened door and the wall

: a device (such as a wedge or weight) for holding a door open

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The Joy of Cooking $28 Amazon Everyone should have a cookbook like this, a doorstop that is almost more encyclopedia than manual. —

Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 4 July 2024 The Legislature adjourned sine die Saturday and left on Hobbs' doorstop several pieces of legislation related to groundwater management. —

Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2024 Donald Clarke’s doorstop Wishing on the Moon (1994) is a solid, fog-clearing biography. —

Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024 This is not the Francis Ford Coppola story, meaning a conventional doorstop biography of a great man. —

David Kamp, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for doorstop