doorstep

doorstep

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

1. (transitive) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
   • 1998, Emily OReilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter?

     Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...

   • 2006, Denis OHearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song

     Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.

doorstep (plural doorsteps)

1. Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.

   On ones doorstep.

2. (figuratively) Ones immediate neighbourhood or locality.

   They want to build the prison right on our doorstep, it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me

3. A big slice of bread.

   2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy"", P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2

   ""I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.""

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Altri significati:

(figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.

Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.

(transitive) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

A big slice of bread.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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