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— English words —

• backstop n. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
• backstop n. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
• backstop n. (Baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
• backstop n. (Baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
• backstop n. (Rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
• backstop n. (Cricket, dated) The longstop.
• backstop n. (Cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
• backstop n. (Espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
• backstop v. (Transitive) To serve as backstop for.
• backstop v. (Transitive) To bolster, support.
• Backstop prop.n. (UK) A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.
• back-stop n. Alternative spelling of backstop.

— English words, defined in German —

• backstop S. Baseball: den Ball nach Fehlschlägen und Fehlgriffen im Spielfeld haltender Zaun.
• backstop S. Baseball: den Ball nach Fehlschlägen zu Fangen suchender Spieler.
• backstop S. Etwas oder jemand verlässliches als letzte Zuflucht.

— English words, defined in French —

• backstop n. Étai, système destiné à éviter l’effondrement.
• backstop n. Accord ou arrangement par défaut prévu au cas où toutes les autres possibilités faillissent, backstop.
• backstop n. Clapet anti-retour.
• backstop n. (Sport) Filet de sécurité.
• backstop v. Étayer.

— In Dutch —

• backstop n. (Politiek) de afspraak dat indien de brexit plaatsvind zonder…

67 English words from 12 English definitions

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18 English words from 9 foreign definitions

Accord als anti arrangement backstop Ball Baseball cas dat den Filet les par retour Spieler Sport und Zaun

37 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

afspraak au␣cas␣où autres brexit Clapet Clapet␣anti␣retour défaut destiné effondrement Étai Étayer Etwas éviter faillissent Fangen Fehlgriffen Fehlschlägen Filet␣de␣sécurité haltender indien jemand letzte nach oder par␣défaut plaatsvind Politiek possibilités prévu sécurité Spielfeld suchender système toutes verlässliches zonder Zuflucht

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

backstops back-stops backstopped backstopping

17 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK acks ACKs bac BAC -bac- back Back back- backs Cks CKs sto stop top Top

11 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cab Cab CAB ots OTs OTS pot pots POTS SKCA tsk

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

backpost back␣post postback

12 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

backports backposts back␣posts backstops back-stops blackspot black␣spot blacktops black-tops black␣tops postbacks postblack

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

postbac post-bac

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

backshop backstep

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