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Definition of Stoopers
1. stooper [n] - See also: stooper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoopers
Literary usage of Stoopers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Desultory Verse by La Touche Hancock (1912)
"THE stoopers THEY look you up, they look you down, They pass remarks about each
gown, They note the trimmings on each hat, They get each tout ensemble — pat ..."
2. As Jesus Passed by: And Other Addresses by Gipsy Smith (1905)
"Good stoopers are needed in the Church. When I was a gipsy, ... I noticed, when
I was only a boy, that good gleaners had to be good stoopers. ..."
3. Works of Fisher Ames by Fisher Ames (1854)
"It is, however, apparent that the proud are the lowest stoopers, and that their
palaver, as the tars call it, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1837)
"... in an Easterly direction, over a certain common called Feme Carr, to stoopers
Gate, leading to Sandtoft i and which road we call Sandtoft Road. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... Past the very turban crown Feathered with pine and aspen spray, Darkening like
a soldan's down O'er the mute stoopers to his sway, Meek willows, ..."
6. Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence by Fisher Ames (1854)
"It is, however, apparent that the proud are the lowest stoopers, and that their
palaver, as the tars call it, will be more outre than even their former ..."
7. Handley Cross by Robert Smith Surtees (1903)
"... and fifty thousand petties," muttered our master now that the last of the
stoopers had got up their heads, ..."
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