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