Plural of doorstep; the steps leading up to a door, or milk bottles and packages left at someone's front door.
From 'door' + 'step' (from Old English 'steppan' meaning to step or walk). The compound describes both the physical steps and, figuratively, packages left at a door.
Milk delivery doorsteps are a vanishing cultural artifact—in 1950s Britain, doorstep milk delivery was so universal that 'doorstepping' became a journalistic term for ambushing someone at their home for an interview, using the doorstep as the battleground for breaking news!
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