catcher

CEFRB1

/ˈkæt͡ʃə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A player who catches the ball in baseball.
02
noun
Extra detail
The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.

Examples

It happens that we have two copies of Catcher in the Rye.
The other day, we chose Yoshida to be the catcher on our school's baseball team.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
Someone or something that catches.
The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.

In context

Tom is the best high school catcher I've ever seen.
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.
A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1989 February 13, Roger Angell, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion, Ballantine Books, page 22
A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210
At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.
2021, University of the District of Columbia, “The plate umpire may suspend play because of darkness”, in Course Hero

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