doorstopper

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
  2. A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. humorous
    — So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.
  3. A gauge used in geophysics.

词形变化

doorstoppers plural

词源

From door + stopper.
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