DCHP-3

back stoop

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a back porch, usually unroofed.

See: stoop

Quotations

1891
Mr Adolphus Hitone, of Jarvis Street, sits around on his back stoop in his shirtsleeves on these fine evenings.
1966
It's one thing to have [them] looking at you and remarking that the grass is getting a little long, and another to have your reveries on the back stoop rudely interrupted by the sound of a police siren.