Pitcher

/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ · noun

Meaning

One who pitches (in any sense) anything.

Definitions by Sense

1. One who pitches (in any sense) anything
2. (baseball, softball, pesäpallo) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
3. (slang) A drug dealer.
4. (obsolete, UK, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
5. (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
6. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
7. One who makes a pitch or proposal.
8. (obsolete, UK, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.

Example Sentences

A tent pitcher

A pitcher of ideas

A quoits pitcher

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.

To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.

To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.

The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.

At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.

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