english
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noun
backless seat:
She sat on a short stool.
Simple Definitions
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noun ADJ. high, tall | three-legged | folding, fold-up | bar, kitchen, music, piano VERB + STOOL perch on/be perched on, sit (down) on He was perched on a bar stool, ordering a beer. | get off | drag up, pull up She pulled up a stool next to me.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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Phrase(s): stool (on someone)
Sl. to inform (on someone). • Jane would stool on anybody, even her own mother. • Somebody stooled and ruined the whole layout., Phrase(s): stool (pigeon) [and] stoolie
an informer. (Originally underworld.) • Some stool pigeon spilled the works to the boys in blue. • There’s nothing I hate worse than a stoolie.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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In addition to the idiom beginning with STOOL, Also see FALL BETWEEN THE CRACKS (TWO STOOLS).
American Heritage Idioms