Catcher

/ˈkæt͡ʃə/ · noun

Meaning

Someone or something that catches..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone or something that catches.
2. (baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
4. (archaic) A wrestler.
5. (ice hockey) The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
6. Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)

Example Sentences

Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.

A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.

At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.

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