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Meaning of backstop


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  backstop
      n 1: (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
           [syn: {catcher}, {backstop}]
      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"
      v 1: act as a backstop


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