Stoop ¹

Definition: 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 ²

Definition: A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

Stoop ³

Definition: A post fixed in the earth.

Stoop ⁴

Definition: 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 ⁵

Definition: To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

Stoop ⁶

Definition: To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

Stoop ⁷

Definition: To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

Stoop ⁸

Definition: To sink when on the wing; to alight.

Stoop ⁹

Definition: To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

Stoop ¹⁰

Definition: To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

Stoop ¹¹

Definition: To cause to submit; to prostrate.

Stoop ¹²

Definition: To degrade.

Stoop ¹³

Definition: The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

Stoop ¹⁴

Definition: Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

Stoop ¹⁵

Definition: The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

stoop ¹⁶

Definition: an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward

stoop ¹⁷

Definition: small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house

stoop ¹⁸

Definition: basin for holy water

stoop ¹⁹

Definition: carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"

stoop ²⁰

Definition: sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"

stoop ²¹

Definition: bend one''s back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl''s purse"

stoop ²²

Definition: descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"

stoop ²³

Definition: debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won''t stoop to reading other people''s mail"