catcher
(kætʃəʳ )
Word forms: catchers
1. countable noun
In baseball, the catcher is the player who stands behind the batter. The catcher has a special glove for catching the ball.
2. countable noun [usually with supplement]
You can refer to someone who catches something as a catcher.
...the catcher of the largest fish.
...a rat-catcher.
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Translations:
Chinese: 捕手
Japanese: キャッチャー
- close vote
- closing
- closing
- closing argument
- closing bell
- closing ceremony
- closing chapter
- closing date
- closing price
- closing round
- closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
- closing time
- Clostridium difficile
- closure
- clot
- clot formation
- cloth
- cloth cap
- clothe
- clothed
- clothes
- clothes closet
- clothes fit
- clothes horse
- clothesline