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Backstop Common

Backstop has 7 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher

2

(baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field

3

a precaution in case of an emergency

"he acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong"

4

A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

Verb
1

act as a backstop

2

To serve as backstop for.

Proper Noun
1

A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.

See Also
wall support backstops hold back longstop home plate reinforce
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
infielder fence precaution play
Rhyming Words
top stop atop betop netop ontop estop bedtop instop ziptop outtop cartop on top nettop redtop webtop postop f stop e stop unstop
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