short-stop

Definitions

1. 1

   To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete

   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.
   • Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin.
   • He went to the hospital, where they short-stopped a heart attack, perhaps by minutes.
2. 2

   To play the position of shortstop.

   • 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.

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