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shortstop

[shawrt-stop] Origin

short·stop

[shawrt-stop]
noun
1.
Baseball.
a.
the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base.
b.
a fielder who covers this position.
2.
Also called shortstop bath. Photography. stop bath.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; short + stop
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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shortstop (ˈʃɔːtˌstɒp)
 
n
baseball
 a.  the fielding position to the left of second base viewed from home plate
 b.  the player at this position

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shortstop
1837, from short (adj.) + stop. In cricket, there also is a longstop.
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