2. Verb. (third-person singular of stoop) ¹
3. Verb. See steups (West Indian slang) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoops
1. stoop [v] - See also: stoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoops
Literary usage of Stoops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"OLIVER GOLDSMITH [1728-1774] WHEN LOVELY WOMAN stoops WHEN lovely woman stoops
to folly And finds too late that men betray, — What charm can soothe her ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"Between these 'rooms,' as they are called, 'stoops' of coal, ... It is necessary,
however, ;o leave large stoops at the bottom of the shaft for its support, ..."
3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1886)
"GOLDSMITH'S "SHE stoops TO ... after he had finished his comedy, then unnamed,
but subsequently known as She stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night . ..."
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