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Definition of Backstop

Backstop
Backstop Back"stop`, n. 1. In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also, the catcher himself. 2. In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base. 3. In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper.

Meaning of Backstop from wikipedia

- Look up backstop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Backstop may refer to: Backstop (baseball), a screen behind a field's home plate Catcher, a defensive...
- In geology, a backstop is the region of forearcs that has much higher shear strength and yield strength than other overriding material closer to the oceanic...
- The Irish backstop (formally the Northern Ireland Protocol) was a proposed protocol to a draft Brexit withdrawal agreement that never came into force....
- indoor ranges consist of firing lines/lanes, targets and a bullet trap/"backstop" (which prevents stray shots and overpenetrations). Design considerations...
- Operation Backstop was a United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) military plan designed to guard a portion of the United Nations Protected Areas (UNPAs)...
- Landmine (replacing Ward Perry), Scott McNeil as the voices of Snarl and Backstop, Brian Dobson reprising the role of Red Alert, Richard Newman as the voice...
- Backstop resources theory states that as a heavily used limited resource becomes expensive, alternative resources will become cheap by comparison, therefore...
- Agreement which replaced the backstop with a new protocol on Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland. The key differences with the backstop are: A unilateral exit...
- Maher approved and announced a new editing group for NPR, called "the Backstop", which caused internal anxiety. Numerous employees expressed concern that...
- trade deal between the EU and UK. On the Irish border question, the Irish backstop was appended to the agreement setting a fall-back position if effective...