What is "backstopped"

Usage examples of "backstopped".

In his quiet style, he backstopped the head of it, Lord Advisor Chardon, so well that afterward he received a raise in grade, and was appointed High Commissioner of the Virgilian System, at the opposite end of the Empire.

Given elaborate cover stories thoroughly prepared over a period of years and backstopped to infinity, they were virtually indistinguishable from any citizen of the country they infiltrated.

A master forger, he specialized in passports, birth certificates, and other documents of identification, sometimes creating elaborately backstopped legends needed to convince authorities and enlistment officers that you were someone other than who you really were.

And besides, we all have false ID backstopped to the nth degree by your spook buddy Driscoll in the event anything goes wrong.

Danny Getchell lurked by the Greek Theatre, backstopped by some movie camera schmuck.

Malloy was backstopped by a muscle cop who looked like a refugee from the wrong side of a Mississippi chain gang: big ears, blond flattop, pig eyes, and a too-small suitcoat framing the kind of body you expect to see on convicts who haul cotton bales all day.

Annie looked after this place, backstopped the people who kept it in good running order, directed their attention to developing problems, fixed little things that failed to show up on an alert-board before they became big things.