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The correct spelling is stoops.
How to pronounce stoops
verb
Say it like: Stoo-ps
The correct spelling is stoops. To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust. For example: "The old man walked with a stoop."
Usage Examples
“The old man walked with a stoop.”
“He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”
“Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust.
- 2.To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- 3.To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- 4.Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- 5.To cause to incline downward; to slant.
noun
- 1.The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- 2.The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- 3.A stooping, bent position of the body.
- 4.An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- 5.A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
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