Backstop

Quick meaning: Backstop is a noun meaning An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
2. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
3. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
4. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
5. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
6. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
7. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.

Example Sentences

[…] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.

Closely representing an alibi, creating a backstop could involve such measures as having people available to verify the details of an agent's cover story.

Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited backstop would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK’s Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory backstop.

Word Forms

• backstops
• back-stop
• backstopping
• backstopped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backup, underpin, barrier, buttress, reinforcement, seatback.

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