Stoop

Definition: Stoop

Stoop

Noun

1. An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward.

2. Basin for holy water.

3. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.

Verb

1. 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".

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

3. Descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field".

4. Sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path".

5. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stoop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Stoop \Stoop\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Stooped; Stooping.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stoop

Cunning

Verb: be cunning; Adjective: have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive; (plan); live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter, circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach; throw off one's guard; surprise; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind.

Depression

Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal).

Descent

Dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall.

Humility

Verb: be humble; Adjective: deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace; (brook); yield the palm.

Improbity

Disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy.

Receptacle

Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza.

Servility

Verb: cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship.

Skill

Look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer; (cunning); play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse.

Crosswords: Stoop

Yes, I did. But you don't think I'd stoop to telling a fib (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person (The Producers; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

I wouldn't stoop so low. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

From the stoop to the big dudes, stoppin' us from playin' hoops (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

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Books

• On the Stoop (reference)

• Oorspronge in oënskou : opstelle oor die vroeë kerk ter ere van J.A.A.A. Stoop op sy sestigste verjaardag (reference)

• The Great American Book of Sidewalk, Stoop, Dirt, Curb, and Alley Games (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Spirituals and songs from the Stoop (reference)

• Stoop Down Baby...Let Your Daddy See (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Houdini with the Roterbergs, full-length portrait, seated on stoop, facing front, Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Back stoop, West Virginia farmhouse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The conqueror, it is true, usually, by the force he has over them, compels them, with a sword at their breasts, to stoop to his conditions, and submit to such a government as he pleases to afford them; but the enquiry is, what right he has to do so? If it be said, they submit by their own consent, then this allows their own consent to be necessary to give the conqueror a title to rule over them. (Second Treatise of Government)

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Being unable to stoop down for fear of betraying himself, he had not cut the cords on his left leg.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stoop": have a stoop ♦ stoop down ♦ stoop to ♦ stoop to conquer. Additional references.

Beginning with "stoop": stoop-back, stoop-backed, stoop-kneed, stoop-shouldered.

Albanian

sulem poshtë, verandë (cupola, Piazza, porch, terrace, veranda, verandah), ul veten (condescend, demean oneself, eat humble pie), pranoj të, përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, droop, flection, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, reverence, sag, warp), përkulem (bend, bend over, bow, bow down, cant, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, hook, incurve, lean, sag), nënshtrohem (be smb.'s dependent, bend, come under, defer, expose, knuckle under, own up, surrender), lëshohem (be launched, cave in, fail, flag, flop, go down, hibernate, lag, languish, rush on, unwind), kërrusem (bend, bow), bie poshtë (swoop), begenis (condescend, deign, patronize), bëhem urë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محدودب (gibbous, humpback), ‏نقض على فريسة, ‏وطأ رأسه, ‏عكف, ‏إنقضاض (assault, dive, onrush, onslaught, run, rush, storm, swoop), ‏إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, recline, sag, tip), ‏إنحناء (bend, bowing, crook, crouch, curvature, dipping, drooping, duck, tendency), ‏إنخفض (die down, drop, fade, go down, recede, sag, tumble), ‏إحدودب (camber, humpback, hunch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унижавам се (abase oneself, crawl, decline, deign, eat humble pie, grovel, prostrate oneself, swallow one's pride), ходя приведен (slump), навес (awning, bulkhead, canopy, hovel, marquee, outbuilding, penthouse, shed, shelter, tilt), навеждам се (bend, bend forward, bend over, couch, crouch, nod, reach down), малка покрита веранда пред къща, благоволявам (condescend, deign, favour, please, vouchsafe), прегърбване, прегърбена стойка (slouch, slump), прибягвам до низост, покрито преддверие, изгърбвам се, деградирам (abase, break, degrade). (various references)

Chinese 

門廊 , � � (look down), 彎腰 , 弯身 (stooped, stooping), 俯 (look down). (various references)

Czech

snížit se (come down, demean, lower, sag, slacken, slip), sklonit se (bow, incline), sehnout (keep), pokořit se (eat crow, humble oneself, submit), hrbit se (cringe, crouch, have a slouch, slouch). (various references)

Danish

bøje sig (bend). (various references)

Dutch

overhellen, hellen (slope down), buigen (bend, bow, curtsy, incline, tilt), aflopen (come to an end, cover, end, end up, expire, go through, pass through, peal, ring). (various references)

Esperanto

kliniĝi, klini sin (bend). (various references)

Farsi 

تمکین (Deference), سرفروداوردن (Lout, Succumb), خمیدگی (Bend, Bent, Curvature, Loop, Offset, Rake), خم شدن (Bow, Buckle, Decline, Lean, Lob, Recline, Sag, Wilt), خشوع کردن , دولاشدن (Crouch, Hunker). (various references)

Finnish

kumartua (bow, duck), kävellä väärässä (walk bent). (various references)

French

s'incliner. (various references)

German

sich bücken (bend, bend down, bend over, get down, to bend down). (various references)

Greek 

κύπτω (crouch), σκύβω (bend, bend over, duck), σκύπτω (duck), σκύψιμο, βεράντα εισόδου, προπύλαιο (porch, veranda, vestibule), εξώσκαλο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרפסת כ� יס�" (porch), מסטובא (porch), לכפוף (bend, bow down, compel, curve, incline, subject), ל�"תכופף (bend, bow, crouch, double up, duck), ל�"רכין (bend, bow, droop, incline, tilt), ל�'חון (bend over, incline, lean), ל�'�"ור (bend over), שפיפ�" (bending, crouching, droop, drooping), רכי� �". (various references)

Hungarian

szenteltvíztartó (font), serleg (beaker, bucket, chalice, cup, goblet, mug, noria scoop, pot), kehely (bell, calyx, chalice, cup), előrehajlás, elõrehajlás, elõrehajol (bend forward), görbe hát, görnyed (to stoop), görnyedés, dúc (brace, bracket, buttress, crutch, prop, stanchion, stereo, stilt, strutter, tree), kancsó (crock, flagon, jug, pitcher), veranda (porch, porchway, veranda, verandah), korsó (crock, jar, jug, mug, pitcher, pot), lépcsős tornác, leereszkedés (condescension, descent), lehajlás, meggörnyedés, görnyedtség. (various references)

Indonesian

membungkuk (crouch, dip), bungkuk (crooked, humped). (various references)

Irish

crom. (various references)

Italian

curvarsi (bend, bow, cant, crook, curve, warp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

猫背 (a bent back), 伏 (bend down, crouch, fall prostrate, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, submit to, yield to). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ね�"ぜ (a bent back), ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, clothes, collateral, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to). (various references)

Manx

lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coil, coiling, curl up, curve, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, loop, looping, sag, squirm, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe), cruittys, croymmey (bend, bow, crouch, double over, double up; obeisance, hold down, lean forward, tip over), croym-lhinganys (round-shoulderedness), cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer). (various references)

Pig Latin

oopstay.(various references)

Portuguese

vergar-se, varanda (balcony, gallery, gazabo, gazebo, piazza, porch, terrace, veranda), pilar (buttress, column, pestle, spile, stanchion), incline, inclinar-se (bend, bow, camber, crouch, decline, hade, lean, slope, sloping, tilt, tip), corcovar (hump), coluna (column, header, pillar, post, spine), cântaro (cantharis, ewer, jug, jugful, pitcher, pot), andar curvado, abaixar-se (grovel). (various references)

Romanian

se gârbovi, se apleca (apply, bend, decline, lean, nod), se înjosi (abase, cower, demean oneself, lower), se încovoia (crook, flex, recurve, sag, warp, yield), verandã (Piazza, porch, veranda, verandah), umilire (abasement, contumely, crouch, humiliation, mortification), umili (abase, abash, bear down, humble, humiliate, mortify, snub, submit, take down), gheboşa, bunãvoinţã (amiability, amicableness, benevolence, charity, clemency, condescension, friendliness, good will, goodwill, grace, graciousness, humanity, kindness, patronage, readiness, willingness), aplecare (bend, bending, cast, crouch, droop, inclination, leaning), apleca (be inclined, bend, bow, enslave, hang down, humiliate, incline, lower, slope, submit, surrender, tilt, tilt over), înjosi (abase, debase, degrade, humble, humiliate, mortify), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crook, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, redouble, tuck in), încovoiere (bend, crook, flexure, inflexion, kink, sag), înclina (be inclined, bend, bias, bow, incline, incline to, lean against, prejudice, recline, shelve, slant, slope, splay, tilt, yield). (various references)

Russian 

наклонять (bend, cant, decline, droop, incline, lean, slants, slope, tilt, tilting, tip, vail). (various references)

Scottish

lùb (bend, consent, humble, incline, loop, noose, snare, yield), giolc, crom (arched, bent, bow, bowed, crooked, curved). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stepenice (stairs), sagnuti (bend, bow), saginjanje, presamititi (bend), poviti (bend, bow, hunch, recurve, scrunch, swaddle), pognutost (droop), pognuti (bend). (various references)

Spanish

pequeña veranda, pórtico (gateway, Piazza, porch, portico), inclinarse (bend down, bow, droop, incline, kotow, kowtow, lean forward, lean over, list, pitch, slant, slope, tend), encorvarse (bend, crook, flex, hook), cargazón de espaldas, bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), agacharse (bend, bob down, cower, crouch, drop, drop down, duck, hunker down, squat). (various references)

Swedish

böja sig (be curved, bend, incurve, knuckle down, knuckle under). (various references)

Turkish

sundurma (cantilever, lean-to shed, loggia, open shed, penthouse, porch, shed, shelter), yırtıcı kuşun avına saldırması, tenezzül etmek (condescend, deign, patronize, please, vouchsafe), kapı önü verandası, kambur durmak (slouch, slouch along), kambur durma (slouch), hızla alçalıp avına vurmak, eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, sway, tilt, warp), eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, curve, dip, double, double up, droop, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, incline, lean, sag, spring, strain, tilt, tip, warp, yield), eğilme (bending, buckle, curvature, dip, droop, flexure, hunch, inclination, inflection, inflexion, lean, proneness, spring, tilt, tip), alçalmak (abase oneself, bastardize, derogate, descend, dip, drop, ebb, get off, go down, set, sink, subside), abanmak (bend over, lean against, lean over), öne eğilme, öne doğru eğilmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

egmek (bow). (various references)

Ukrainian

сутулість (droop, slouch), сутулитися (hump, slouch), стрімке падіння, уклін, кидатися униз, ганок із східцями, нахилятися (bend, bow, cant, decline, droop, duck, lean, nod, slant, tilt, tip, tip up), нахиляти (cant, droop, incline, lean, slant, slope, tilt, tip, tip up), принижуватися (bend the neck, condescend, humble oneself, lower oneself, prostrate oneself), приниження (abasement, abjection, climb down, come down, debasement, depreciation, detraction, humiliation, mortification). (various references)

Welsh

ymostwng (humble oneself, submit), ymgrymu (bow down), plygu (bend, bow, fold), gwyro (bend, slope, swerve), gwargrymu, gwargamu, cwman (rump), crymu (bend, bow), camu (bend, bow, step, stride). (various references)

cavea, descendam, descendamus, descendant, descendas, descendat, descendatis, descende, descendebant, descendebat, descendendi, descendens, descendent, descendente, descendentem, descendentes, descendentibus, descendentis, descendentium, descendentque, descenderant, descenderat, descendere, descenderem, descenderent, descenderes, descenderet, descenderint, descenderintque, descenderit, descendero, descenderunt, descenderuntque, descendes, descendet, descendetis, descendi, descendimus, descendique, descendissent, descendisset, descendissetque, descendisti, descendit, descendite, descenditis, descenditque, descendo, descendunt, descensione, descensu, descensum, descensus. (various references)

lutan. (various references)

stoep. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stoop": stoopball, stoopballs, stooped, stooper, stoopers, stooping, stoops. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stoop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estop, Satipo, schloomp, Schoop, shtup, skopo, staup, stiap, stio, sto, Stolow, stoo, stooc, stoot, stoow, stopa, Stopp, stou, stoub, stouf, stouph, stowp, stoz, stroob, stroop, stu, stup, stupp, stupy, stuz, toop, tsop, tsup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: topos.

-1 letter: oops, oots, opts, post, pots, soot, spot, stop, tops.

-2 letters: oot, ops, opt, pot, sop, sot, too, top.

-3 letters: op, os, so, to.

+1 letter: coopts, photos, pottos, stoops, troops.

+2 letters: bowpots, compost, coplots, copouts, gosport, hotspot, isotope, isotopy, nonstop, octopus, options, outpost, photogs, photons, poloist, pontons, poorest, postbox, postboy, postdoc, potboys, potions, potshot, protons, provost, stooped, stooper, topmost, topsoil, torpors, tosspot, toyshop, uproots, upshoot, upstood.

+3 letters: biotopes, complots, comports, composts, compotes, cooktops, copastor, copilots, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, dropouts, dropshot, footpads, footstep, foretops, goalpost, goopiest, gosports, hoopster, hoptoads, hotspots, housetop, impostor, isophote, isotopes, isotopic, isotropy, loopiest, metopons, octopods, oophytes, opposite, otoscope, otoscopy, outcrops, outdrops, outplods, outplots, outpolls, outports, outposts, outpours, outscoop, outspoke, overtops, oviposit, patroons, photoset, platoons, poloists, polycots, pontoons, pooftahs, poofters, porosity, porticos, portions, position, positron, postboys, postcode, postcoup, postdocs, postform, posthole, postoral, postpone, postriot, postshow, potatoes, potboils, potholes, pothooks, pothouse, potshots, potstone, proctors, promotes, proteose, provosts, rooftops, scotopia, scotopic, smokepot, soapwort, sorption, spittoon, spontoon, stockpot, stolport, stoopers, stooping, stopcock, stopover, taprooms, taproots, teaspoon, tompions, topcoats, topcross, topknots, toponyms, topsoils, topstone, topworks, torpedos, tosspots, towropes, toyshops, trollops, troopers, typhoons, upshoots.