Backstop may refer to:
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Backstop (baseball)
This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, along with their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.
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, a screen behind a field's home plate
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Catcher
Catcher is a position in baseball and softball. When a batter takes their turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home) umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. In addition to this primary duty, the catc ...
, a defensive baseball position behind home plate
* Backstop, a player position in
rounders
Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a cylindrical end. The players score b ...
similar to the catcher in baseball
* Backstop, in the
glossary of rowing terms
In competitive rowing, the following specialized terms are important in the corresponding aspects of the sport:
Boat classes
In competitive rowing events, abbreviations are used for different boat classes.
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Backstop (shooting), a construction of sand or other materials used to stop and contain bullets, for example at shooting ranges
Fictional characters
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Back-Stop (''G.I. Joe''), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
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Backstop (''Transformers''), a fictional character in the ''Transformers: Cybertron'' animated series and toy line
Other uses
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Backstop (geology)
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 trench. The area between the backstop and the trench deforms more than the area from the ba ...
, a tectonic feature
* Backstopping markets, a financial term related to the use of the
Greenspan put
The Greenspan put was a monetary policy response to financial crises that Alan Greenspan, former chair of the Federal Reserve, exercised beginning with the crash of 1987. Successful in addressing various crises, it became controversial as it le ...
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Backstop resources, an economic theory
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Operation Backstop, United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) military plan during the Croatian War of Independence
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Irish backstop
The Irish backstop (formally the Northern Ireland Protocol) was a proposed protocol to a draft Brexit withdrawal agreement that never came into force. It was developed by the May government and the European Commission in December 2017 and fin ...
, a familiar name for the concept of a temporary EU/UK common customs area, proposed in the (failed) 2018 draft Brexit withdrawal agreement
See also
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Buffer stop
A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent Railroad car, railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of Track (rail transport), track.
The design of the buffer stop is dependen ...
or bumper, a railway device
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