: 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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After that game, several newspaper stories speculated that Scioscia’s entrance as catcher into the game had been much more important than his eventual game-winning ground ball.
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Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
Wells also had 13 homers and became the starting catcher.
—Chuck Murr, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Yankees catcher Austin Wells hammered a solo home run over 400 feet to center field in the third inning, extending the lead to 3-1.
—Homero De La Fuente, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
Wells also had 13 homers and became the starting catcher.
—Chuck Murr, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Yankees catcher Austin Wells hammered a solo home run over 400 feet to center field in the third inning, extending the lead to 3-1.
—Homero De La Fuente, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Catcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catcher. Accessed 2 Nov. 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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