catcher
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈkæʧər/
- US
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receptor
- As the game progressed, the team's catcher skillfully blocked the ball and prepared for the next pitch.
- pitcher and catcher
- catcher's hands
- female catcher
Like the Yankee catcher from a few years back.
- Like the Yankee catcher from a few years back.
- He and Jim Glass, the champion catcher for the world's champion Kansas City Royals, were talking.
- So Yogi Berra, the famous Yankee catcher, once said you can observe a lot by watching, OK.
- At one point, after catcher Kurt Suzuki put on a red mugger hat, Trump embraced him in a kind of unusual way.
Examples
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So the, the pitcher and the catcher handle the ball on every single play, right?
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"It's the first playoff game, and Coach Rodgers said I'd be the catcher for this one.
Fiction book (1997) -
Get ready to play catcher.
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OK, so he was a famous catcher in for the New York Yankees, right?
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Like the Yankee catcher from a few years back.
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Pitchers and catchers report in two months, three weeks and six days.
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Brinkley is a great catcher who was offered a tryout on the Mets.
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My arm fell free, and the Briarwood Braves' catcher crumpled onto home plate.
Fiction book (1997) -
And as the pitch arrives in the catcher's hands, the catcher digs in to take on Cobb.
Fiction book (1994) -
The catcher crouched behind home plate, ready to catch any pitches that the batter missed.
Synonyms
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A player who stands behind home plate and catches pitches
A player who stands behind the batter to catch the ball and try to get them out
A player who stands behind the batter to catch missed balls and try to get them out
Compounds
- Slang
A person who answers hard questions from the press to protect their employer or client
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Catcher comes from the verb catch, which means 'to grab' or 'to trap', plus the ending -er, meaning 'someone who does something'. So, a catcher is literally 'someone who catches', which fits the baseball player who crouches behind the batter to catch pitches the batter does not hit.