stoop

  1. Noun.  (US, Canada) A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.
  2. Noun.  (British) The threshold of one's doorway, a doorstep.
  3. Verb.  To bend oneself, or one's head, forward and downward.
  4. Verb.  To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  5. Verb.  Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
  6. Noun.  A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body.
  7. Noun.  (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

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