doorstopper

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.

2

A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.

3

A gauge used in geophysics.

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