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Backstop   /bˈækstˌɑp/   Listen
Backstop

verb
1.
Act as a backstop.






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"Backstop" Quotes from Famous Books



... toward the ruin we crossed a baseball-field which the company had given the men. I looked back for Kennedy. He had paused at the wire backstop behind the catcher. Something caught in the wires interested him. By the time I reached him he had secured it—a long, slender metal tube, cleverly weighted so as ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve



Words linked to "Backstop" :   fence, baseball, baseball game, safeguard, precaution, infielder, fencing, catcher, guard, softball game, play, softball



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