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(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoop(n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Stoop(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Stoop(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Stoop(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
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.
Stoop(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoop(v. t.) To degrade.
Stooped(imp. & p. p.) of Stoop
Stooping() a. & n. from Stoop.
Stooping(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoop
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