Definition of "catcher" in İngilizce

noun

1. Someone or something that catches.

2. (baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.

4. (archaic) A wrestler.

5. (ice hockey) The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.

6. Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)