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pitcher

Syllables: pit·cher/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/US/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/

pitcher noun: one who pitches (in any sense) anything. Also the pronunciation spelling of picture.

pitcher: one who pitches (in any sense) anything
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Noun (1)

pitcher (plural pitchers)

  1. One who pitches (in any sense) anything
    • A tent pitcher
    • A pitcher of ideas
  2. The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
    • 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
  3. (slang) A drug dealer.
    • To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.2000, Michael Massing, The Fix, page 67
  4. (UK, obsolete, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
    • To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2
    Synonyms:
    snide pitcher
  5. (US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
    Synonyms:
    top
  6. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
  7. One who makes a pitch or proposal.
    • The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
  8. (UK, obsolete, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.

Noun (2)

pitcher (plural pitchers)

  1. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
    • At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
  2. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
    • Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel. But this beetle (left) was observed to visit with impunity and even appeared to be scavenging insect bodies from the pitcher.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551

Proper noun capitalized: Pitcher

Pitcher (plural Pitchers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

pitcher is also the pronunciation spelling of picture.

pitcher meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

pitcher in Hindi

पिचर

pitcher in Tamil

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids
செம்பு cempu, கிண்டி kiṇṭi

pitcher in Marathi

पिचर

pitcher in Bengali

পিচার
More languagesFewer languages
pitcher in Telugu
పిచర్, పిచ్చర్, పిట్చర్
pitcher in Malayalam
കിണ്ടി kiṇṭi
pitcher in Kannada
ಪಿಚರ್, ಪಿಚ್ಚರ್
pitcher in Punjabi
ਪਿੱਚਰ, ਪਿਚਰ
pitcher in Gujarati
પિચર, પીચર
pitcher in Odia
ପିଚର୍, ପିଚର, ପିଚ୍ଚର୍
pitcher in Sanskrit
कलश kalaśa
pitcher in Assamese
কলহ koloh
pitcher in Nepali
पिचर
pitcher in Tagalog
pitsel
pitcher in Arabic
إِبْرِيق ʔibrīq, زِير zīr
pitcher in Persian
پارچ pârč
pitcher in Thai
เหยือก yʉ̀ʉak

Examples of pitcher in a sentence

  • The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
  • The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
  • The batter should play out the string. The pitcher should run out the string.

All 40 example sentences with pitcher

Synonyms of pitcher

Forms of pitcher

Noun
pluralpitchers
Proper noun
pluralPitchers

Plural of pitcher: pitchers

Origin of pitcher

From pitch + -er.

From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.

Words formed from pitcher

Phrases with pitcher

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Words that rhyme with pitcher

Questions about pitcher

What does pitcher mean?
Pitcher means one who pitches (in any sense) anything.
What is pitcher in Hindi?
Pitcher in Hindi is पिचर. See Pitcher meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pitcher?
Pitcher can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pitcher?
Pitcher is pronounced /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pitcher?
The plural of pitcher is pitchers.

Words near pitcher in the dictionary

  1. pitched roofs
  2. pitched the tent
  3. pitched up
  4. pitched upon
  5. pitched woo
  6. pitcher
  7. pitcher plant
  8. pitcher plants
  9. pitcher sage
  10. pitcher sages
  11. pitcher's count

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pitcher (page history and authors); Pitcher (page history and authors); pitcher (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pitcher (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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