stage-door

present singular third person stage-doors · participle present stage-dooring · participle past stage-doored · past stage-doored

1. To ambush (an actor) at the stage door where they enter or leave a theatre, for example to ask for their autograph.

   "[…] I stage-doored Phantom. Yeah, I did. My mom wanted to get everyone's autographs. Do I have your autograph?"

   2018 May 16, Daphne Hargrow, The Lonely Spinsters Club: Kendall, Philyra Publishing, →ISBN

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   Stage-dooring (theatrical), hanging about the scenes or doors reserved for actors. Mr. refused to put the chorus ladies into tights, and the public was gently but firmly made to understand that stage-dooring was not allowed[…]

   1897, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Gypsies' Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology, page 286

   Besides which, also B. S., or Before Stella, she pulled 'em in as a stock actress, perhaps the most stage-doored one ever seen on this West Coast.

   1928, Motion Picture Story Magazine

   I have never stage-doored but Kendra was extremely sweet, and friendly (even though I was probably being really crazy and annoying).

   2011 July 7, Stacy Wolf, Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231

   I was being stage-doored. I tried to remember what I was supposed to do. Smile. Offer my autograph. I stepped forward. The eyes slid away from me. Of course. They didn't know who I was. ' Matthew! Over here!'

   2022 October 20, Jenna Warren, The Moon and Stars, Fairlight Books, →ISBN

plural stage-doors

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of stage-door