doorstopper
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdoorstopper (plural doorstoppers)
- A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
- (humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
- 2018, Joe Humphreys, Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress by Stephen Pinker review[1]:
- So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.
- A gauge used in geophysics.
Translations
editdevice for halting the motion of a door — see doorstop