Stoop(n.)
- Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Stoop(v. i.)
- To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Stoop(v. i.)
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoop(v. i.)
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoop(v. i.)
- To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoop(v. i.)
- To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Stoop(v. t.)
- To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
Stoop(v. t.)
- To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.