: one that catches
specifically
: a baseball player positioned behind home plate
Examples of catcher in a Sentence
The cat is a good mouse catcher.
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With his team up 1-0 thanks to Monasterio’s homer, Yelich noticed that Marlins catcher Nick Fortes was lobbing the ball back to Ryan Weathers after each pitch.
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Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
Among the club’s traveling party for its two-city swing into the Eastern Time Zone was catcher Patrick Bailey as well as outfielders Michael Conforto and Austin Slater, who made up half of the six position players sidelined by injuries when the team’s charter flight departed San Francisco.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
Among the club’s traveling party for its two-city swing into the Eastern Time Zone was catcher Patrick Bailey as well as outfielders Michael Conforto and Austin Slater, who made up half of the six position players sidelined by injuries when the team’s charter flight departed San Francisco.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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“Catcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catcher. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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catcher
noun
catch·er
ˈkach-ər 
ˈkech-
: one that catches
especially
: a baseball player who plays behind home plate
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