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Short-stop

verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    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. 2
    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.""

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