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Revision as of 01:30, 26 June 2019
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) Rhymes: -ɛp
Noun
doorstep (plural doorsteps)
- Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess[1]:
- With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
- On one's doorstep.
- (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
- They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
- (UK, informal) A big slice, especially of bread.
- 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 →ISBN
- I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.
- 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 →ISBN
Translations
threshold of a doorway
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big slice of bread
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Verb
doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)
- (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
- 1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter:
- Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
- 2006, Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song:
- Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.
See also
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
doorstep
- (journalism) A short and informal press briefing
- Statsministeren holder doorstep i Statsministeriet.
- The Prime Minister is holding an informal press briefing at the Prime Minister's Office.