The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STOOPS
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What does STOOPS mean?
STOOPS verb- To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust.
- The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- To degrade.
- A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.