backstop

1. 1.

   act as a backstop

   Broaderplay

   baseball

Other forms of backstop

plural

backstops·

past tense

backstopped·

present participle

backstopping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about backstop

What does backstop mean?

backstop means "(baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in backstop?

backstop has 2 syllables: back-stop. The stress falls on "back". In IPA it is /ˈbækˌstɑp/.

What is another word for backstop?

Close synonyms include catcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is backstop a common word?

backstop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with backstop?

3 words rhyme with backstop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.