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catchers

catchers is the plural of catcher.

Meaning of catcher

Noun

catcher (plural catchers)

  1. Someone or something that catches.
  2. 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.1989 February 13, Roger Angell, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion, Ballantine Books, page 22
  3. (US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
    Synonyms:
    bottom
  4. (archaic) A wrestler.
  5. The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
    Synonyms:
    trapper

Phrases with catchers

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Questions about catchers

What is catchers the plural of?
Catchers is the plural of catcher.

Words near catchers in the dictionary

  1. catcher's masks
  2. catcher's mitt
  3. catcher's mitts
  4. catcher-upper
  5. catcher-uppers
  6. catchers
  7. catchers' mitts
  8. catches
  9. catches a body
  10. catches a break
  11. catches a case

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