shortstopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shortstop (plural shortstops)

1. (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

   The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

   • 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.

2. (figuratively) A nimble defender.

   I'll play shortstop when we make our proposal.

3. (gambling) A player who is short of money.
   • 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor:

     The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.

参考

• catcher
• pitcher
• first baseman
• second baseman
• third baseman
• infielder
• outfielder

動詞

shortstop (third-person singular simple present shortstops, present participle shortstopping, simple past and past participle shortstopped)

1. Alternative form of short-stop (to play shortstop).
   • 2012, Robert L. Tiemann, Mark Rucker, Joseph M. Overfield, Nineteenth Century Stars, page 20:

     He captained the Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, (International Association) in 1878; shortstopped for Cincinnati in 1879; stayed out of baseball in 1880; and finished as shortstop for Boston (NL) in 1881.

   • 2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:

     Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).

   • 2017, Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, Juliet Marillier, The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound:

     He shortstopped for a few years for the Houston Astros when they won the World Series twice in a row.

2. Alternative form of short-stop (to cause to stop short).
   • 1978, Carol D. Jori, “Container Revolution in Bremerhaven”, in Sealift, page 18:

     They will be shortstopped in the port for lease by the government, then continue their journey by military train.

   • 2006, Oskar Nuyken, Neodymium Based Ziegler Catalysts - Fundamental Chemistry, page 64:

     In the polymerization of BD by Ti-, Co- and Ni-based catalyst systems the polymerization has to be shortstopped at a specific monomer conversion in order to avoid the formation of gel.

   • 2008, Gary Linderer, Phantom Warriors, page 148:

     Although he successfully shortstopped the assault on his two teammates, the enemy soldiers now concentrated their fire directly on him.

アナグラム

• stop short

動詞

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.
   • 1967, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Report to Stockholders, page 7:

     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.

   • 1983, Sue Hoover, Help Wanted: The First Guide to High-tech Jobs, page 14:

     Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin.

   • 1991, Mediaweek - Volume 1, page 14:

     He went to the hospital, where they short-stopped a heart attack, perhaps by minutes.

   • 1991, Robert D. Athey, Emulsion Polymer Technology, page 80:

     Nitrile rubbers, if they are to be used as dissolving resins, must be short-stopped at about 60 % conversion; otherwise an insoluble gel forms within the resin.

   • 2003, R.J. Nelson, Naming and Reference: The Link of Word to Object:

     Either the intentionality of reference is accepted as a datum or it has to be explained. Folkism short-stops the question, both ways.

2. (baseball) To play the position of shortstop.
   • 1886, California Occident - Volumes 11-12, page 88:

     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."

   • 1909, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 32, page 742:

     Baird, '12, has been catching, short-stopping, second-basing and left-fielding with varying good nature, but impartial ability and with commendable attention to such trifling details as hitting and base running, matters apparently beneath the notice of most of the team.

   • 1979, Mark Harris, Short Work of it: Selected Writing, page 4:

     I have never known her to follow with any degree of avidity the fortunes of the Kansas City Monarchs, for whom Robinson short-stopped last season.