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short-stops

short-stops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of short-stop.

Meaning of short-stop

Verb

short-stop (third-person singular simple present short-stops, present participle short-stopping, simple past and past participle short-stopped)

  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.1967, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Report to Stockholders, page 7
  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."1886, California Occident - Volumes 11-12, page 88

Questions about short-stops

What is short-stops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Short-stops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of short-stop.

Words near short-stops in the dictionary

  1. short-staffing
  2. short-staffs
  3. short-stop
  4. short-stopped
  5. short-stopping
  6. short-stops
  7. short-tack
  8. short-tailed blue
  9. short-tailed blues
  10. short-tailed chinchilla
  11. short-tailed chinchillas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-stops (page history and authors); short-stop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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