short-stop

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.

   “the check which we mentioned earlier as a prime example of present-day around-the-barn movement in the payments stream, might conceivably be short-stopped at a regional clearing center located in Maine.”

2. fiil To play the position of shortstop.

   “In The Spirit of the Times, the most reliable sporting paper of the Coast, we find the following encouraging criticism on our baseball nine: " Koshland (a tower of strength to this league) short topped and ran bases as brilliantly as the best of professionals."”