catcher
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Someone or something that catches.
- The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
- The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
- A wrestler.
- The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
- Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)
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