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Catcher

//ˈkæt͡ʃə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that catches.
  2. 2
    the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws wordnet
  3. 3
    The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

    "Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance."

  4. 4
    (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher wordnet
  5. 5
    The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men. US, colloquial
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  1. 6
    A wrestler. archaic
  2. 7
    The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
  3. 8
    Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”) abbreviation, alt-of

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Indo-European *kaptós Proto-Italic *kaptos Vulgar Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Vulgar Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch Latin -ariusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English catcher From catch + -er.

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