Doorstop

Definitions

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. A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
   humorous
3. Eggcorn of doorstep.
   British, nonstandard, proscribed
4. An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
   Australia

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do[.]”

“And television dominates this place⟳ — just look⟳ at Beazley tossing around cans of tomato soup at his morning doorstops outside Parliament House.”

“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.”

“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.”

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