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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position
2: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base [syn: shortstop, short]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1857 1. the player position in baseball for defending the infield area on the third-base side of second base 2. the player stationed in the shortstop position

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a baseball fielder near second base.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shortstop Short"stop`, n. (Baseball) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

In baseball, a shortstop is a player who tries to stop balls that go between second and third base. N-COUNT

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