shortstop

See also: short stop and short-stop

English

Etymology

short +‎ stop

Noun

shortstop (plural shortstops)

1. (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

   The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

2. (figuratively) A nimble defender.

   I'll play shortstop when we make our proposal.

3. (gambling) A player who is short of money.
   • 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor:

     The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.

Translations

baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman

• Catalan: interbase (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游擊手／游击手 (yóujīshǒu)

• Czech: spojka (cs)
• Finnish: sortti (fi) (in baseball); polttaja (fi) (in pesäpallo)
• French: arrêt-court (fr)
• Hungarian: beállós (hu)
• Italian: interbase (it)
• Japanese: ショート (ja) (shōto), 遊撃手 (ja) (ゆうげきしゅ, yūgekishu),
• Korean: 유격수(遊擊手) (ko) (yugyeoksu), 쇼트 (ko) (syoteu)
• Portuguese: interbases
• Spanish: campo corto m, parador en corto m, torpedero m

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Translations to be checked

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} kortslutning (da)

See also

• catcher
• pitcher
• first baseman
• second baseman
• third baseman
• infielder
• outfielder

Anagrams

• stop short

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English shortstop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔʁt.stɔp/

Noun

shortstop m (plural shortstops)

1. (baseball) shortstop

Further reading

• “shortstop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shortstop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃoɾtesˈtop/ [ʃoɾ.t̪esˈt̪op]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

shortstop m (plural shortstops)

1. (baseball) shortstop

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.