ALL meanings of catcher
catch·er
C c - countable noun catcher In baseball, the catcher is the player who stands behind the batter. The catcher has a special glove for catching the ball. 3
- countable noun catcher You can refer to someone who catches something as a catcher. 3
- noun catcher a person or thing that catches, esp in a game or sport 3
- noun catcher a fielder who stands behind home plate and catches pitched balls not hit by the batter 3
- noun catcher the player stationed behind home plate, who catches pitched balls not hit away by the batter 3
- noun catcher baseball: fielder 1
- noun catcher A person or thing that catches something. 1
- noun catcher a person or thing that catches. 1
- noun catcher Baseball. the player stationed behind home plate, whose chief duty is to catch pitches not hit by the batter. 1
- noun catcher a member of an aerialist team, as in a circus, who hangs head down from a trapeze and catches another member who has completed a jump or somersault through the air. 1
- noun catcher Metalworking. a person who feeds metal rods through a looping mill. 1
- noun catcher Electronics. catcher resonator. See under Klystron. 1
- noun catcher Someone or something that catches. 0
- noun catcher (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher. 0
- noun catcher (Colloquial) (chiefly US) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men. 0