Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a stooping or inclined position.
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- adverb In a
stooping orinclined position.
Etymologies
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a- + stoop
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Examples
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He had been traveling astoop, partly because the burden of his years weighed heavy on his shoulders, partly as if his muscles had unconsciously reverted to the easy, slouching, climbing-stoop of the Kentucky mountaineer.
In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901
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