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shortstop (plural shortstops)
- (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.
The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
- (figuratively) A nimble defender.
I'll play shortstop when we make our proposal.
- (gambling) A player who is short of money.
1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor:
The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
Translations to be checked
shortstop (third-person singular simple present shortstops, present participle shortstopping, simple past and past participle shortstopped)
- Alternative form of short-stop (to play shortstop).
2012, Robert L. Tiemann, Mark Rucker, Joseph M. Overfield, Nineteenth Century Stars, page 20:
He captained the Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, (International Association) in 1878; shortstopped for Cincinnati in 1879; stayed out of baseball in 1880; and finished as shortstop for Boston (NL) in 1881.
2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:
Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).
2017, Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, Juliet Marillier, The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound:
He shortstopped for a few years for the Houston Astros when they won the World Series twice in a row.
- Alternative form of short-stop (to cause to stop short).
1978, Carol D. Jori, “Container Revolution in Bremerhaven”, in Sealift, page 18:
They will be shortstopped in the port for lease by the government, then continue their journey by military train.
2006, Oskar Nuyken, Neodymium Based Ziegler Catalysts - Fundamental Chemistry, page 64:
In the polymerization of BD by Ti-, Co- and Ni-based catalyst systems the polymerization has to be shortstopped at a specific monomer conversion in order to avoid the formation of gel.
2008, Gary Linderer, Phantom Warriors, page 148:
Although he successfully shortstopped the assault on his two teammates, the enemy soldiers now concentrated their fire directly on him.
Borrowed from English shortstop.
shortstop m (plural shortstops)
- “shortstop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Unadapted borrowing from English shortstop.
shortstop m (plural shortstops)
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.