pitchers

Noun

pitcher (plural pitchers)

1. One who pitches (in any sense) anything
   • A tent pitcher
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.

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