Definitions for catcher

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catcher catch·er

Spelling: [kach-er]

IPA: /ˈkætʃ ər/

Catcher is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in catcher (accehrt).

Definitions for catcher

noun

1. a person or thing that catches.
2. Baseball. the player stationed behind home plate, whose chief duty is to catch pitches not hit by the batter.
3. 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.
4. Metalworking. a person who feeds metal rods through a looping mill.
5. Electronics. catcher resonator. See under Klystron.

Origin of catcher

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at catch, -er¹

Examples for catcher

"Well, he'll have a catcher that can hold him this year," declared the city lad.

Confusion over the catcher's eye black is just the tip of the iceberg for this befuddled limey.

"The creator of Holden Caulfield in The catcher in the Rye would not be pleased," USA Today.

Elevating his voice, Addison then called out, "catcher, do your duty!"

But then, in 1951, A catcher in the Rye was published, and Salinger became a celebrity.

For me, reading Middlemarch or Sentimental Education is work, whereas catcher in the Rye was pure pleasure.

The tiger is the catcher, and the deer is the one that is caught.

Smithers was between him and the plate, and he could not see the catcher.

As far as seeing the target, the catcher put tape on his fingers so I could see the signals.

Now their third man struck out and the catcher's mask was off.