Stoop-ball
noun
1.
a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
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- Stooped
verb (used without object) 1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk. 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward: to stoop from age. 3. (of trees, precipices, etc.) to bend, bow, or lean. 4. to descend from […]
- Stooper
verb (used without object) 1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk. 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward: to stoop from age. 3. (of trees, precipices, etc.) to bend, bow, or lean. 4. to descend from […]
- Stooping
verb (used without object) 1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk. 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward: to stoop from age. 3. (of trees, precipices, etc.) to bend, bow, or lean. 4. to descend from […]
- Stoop-labor
noun 1. the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers. Back-bending manual work, especially farm work. For example, They had us picking peas all day, and that’s too much stoop labor. [ First half of 1900s ]
- Stoop to
Condescend to something beneath one’s dignity, as in She wouldn’t stoop to listening to that obnoxious gossip. [ Second half of 1500s ]