🎾 A ball launcher 🙋 A high thrower

lobber

6.3

A person who hits or throws a ball high over another player

noun
/ˈlɑːbər/

: lanzador

She is known as the best lobber on the team, consistently making high shots that confound the opponents.

Examples

As a skilled lobber, he often caught everyone off guard with his surprising throws during practice.
You play Singjin, then you drop the bomb lobber and you're way laughing.
During the game, the nimble lobber sent the ball flying over the net with a perfect arc.

Synonyms

thrower

vslobber

14 2.2

A person who sends a thing through the air with a quick arm movement, for example a javelin athlete

sends items in a high arcing path rather than via quick arm motion

flinger

vslobber

1 6.1

A person or machine that throws things quickly and strongly

sends items in a high arcing path rather than with sudden force

chucker

vslobber

Jargon

1 7.8

A person who throws a ball, like a pitcher

sends things in a high arcing path rather than with strong force

Surface Forms

lobber singular

lobbers plural

Morphology

lobber = lob (transparent) = lob + er

Agentive/nominal '-er' added to the verb 'lob' yields a person who performs the action; the relation is direct and regular.

Etymology

Lobber comes from the verb lob, which means 'to throw in a high arc'. So a lobber is a person who throws or hits the ball high to get it over an opponent or out of reach.