doorstop

Definitions

• Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
• (jocular) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
• (British) (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
• (Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.