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stoop
  1. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
  2. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He walked around with a stoop and managed to look as if he wasn't up to much.”
      “From the sidewalk to the stoop at the entrance of the said building, a plank was laid, one end of which rested on the sidewalk and the other on the stoop of the said premises.”
stooper
  1. A person who stoops.
  2. One who searches for discarded winning tickets at a racetrack.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The boy who in jumping knocks off either of the things has to take the place of the stooper.”
      “Should the stooper guess correctly, they all change places, and the jumper forms the back.”
      “He became a top stooper, and he still never misses the huge stooping jackpots: the Kentucky Derby, and August in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he and three other stoopers rent a house to work the racing session.”
stoop
  1. A stooping, bent position of the body
  2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He walked around with a stoop and managed to look as if he wasn't up to much.”
      “From the sidewalk to the stoop at the entrance of the said building, a plank was laid, one end of which rested on the sidewalk and the other on the stoop of the said premises.”
stoopball
  1. (game) A game played by bouncing a ball off a step or stoop.
  2. Examples:
    1. “When he came home from Yankee Stadium, my stoopball associate, Fiskie Benjamin, and I waited to interrogate him.”
      “Kaiser first learned the value of cooperative effort playing stickball and stoopball on the streets of New York City, where he was born and brought up.”
stoop
  1. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He walked around with a stoop and managed to look as if he wasn't up to much.”
      “From the sidewalk to the stoop at the entrance of the said building, a plank was laid, one end of which rested on the sidewalk and the other on the stoop of the said premises.”
stoop
  1. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He walked around with a stoop and managed to look as if he wasn't up to much.”
      “From the sidewalk to the stoop at the entrance of the said building, a plank was laid, one end of which rested on the sidewalk and the other on the stoop of the said premises.”
stoope
  1. Archaic form of stoop. (entrance porch)
  2. Examples:
    1. “It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.”
      “If he in any sort have communicated himselfe vnto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power.”
stooping
stoopings
stoopers
  1. plural of stooper
stoopes
  1. plural of stoope
stoops
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