doorstopper
- n a stop that keeps open doors from moving
- Washington can and should continue to augment the country's antiviral stockpile and publish revised pandemic plans like the 396-page doorstopper put out by the Department of Health .
- With the exception of An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie, his doorstopper novels are largely forgotten.
- Finally, while penning another doorstopper to pay off his debt to a Swiss bank, he catches pneumonia.