doorstopper
/ˈdɔrˌstɑpər/
noun
- An object used to hold a door open or to prevent it from closing; same as a doorstop.
- The heavy doorstopper kept the back door from swinging shut in the breeze.
- A doorstopper is useful when you need to carry groceries inside without the door closing.
- She bought a cute animal-shaped doorstopper for her bedroom door.
- A very thick or heavy book, often used figuratively.
- That encyclopedia is a real doorstopper at over a thousand pages.
- The textbook was a doorstopper, weighing almost five pounds.
- I tried to read that novel, but it was such a doorstopper I gave up halfway.