Usually means: Player who receives pitches; baseball.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. catcher: Merriam-Webster
  2. catcher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catcher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catcher: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Catcher, catcher: Wordnik
  6. catcher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Catcher: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. catcher: Wiktionary
  9. catcher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catcher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catcher: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Catcher, catcher: Dictionary.com
  13. catcher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Catcher (baseball), Catcher, The Catcher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Catcher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. catcher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. catcher: Rhymezone
  18. Catcher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. catcher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. catcher: FreeDictionary.org
  21. catcher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. catcher: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. catcher: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. catcher: Vocabulary.com
  25. catcher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catcher: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catcher, catcher, catcher: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catcher)

▸ noun:  Someone or something that catches.
▸ noun:  (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
▸ noun:  (chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A wrestler.

Similar:
plate, captor, capturer, slavecatcher, birdcatcher, catcatcher, ratcatcher, snarer, eyecatcher, grabber, more...

Opposite:
pitcher, thrower, striker

Types:
backstop, receiver, blocker, more...

Phrases:
dream catcher, dog catcher, Slave catcher, rat catcher, bird catcher, more...

Adjectives:
fly, rat, bird, oyster, good, old, great, former, young, regular, defensive

Colors:
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Similar:
plate, captor, capturer, slavecatcher, birdcatcher, catcatcher, ratcatcher, snarer, eyecatcher, grabber, more...

Opposite:
pitcher, thrower, striker

Types:
backstop, receiver, blocker, more...

Phrases:
dream catcher, dog catcher, Slave catcher, rat catcher, bird catcher, whale catcher, oyster catcher, Core catcher, soul catcher, cow catcher, dust catcher, eye catcher, fly catcher, grass catcher, pass catcher, more...

Adjectives:
fly, rat, bird, oyster, good, old, great, former, young, regular, defensive

Colors:
    rust,     brown,     black,     maroon,     olive, more...



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