pitcher
IPA: pˈɪtʃɝ
noun
- One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
- (baseball, softball) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
- One who makes a pitch or proposal.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.
- 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.
- (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
- A surname.
- Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English. [A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.]
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Examples of "pitcher" in Sentences
- What is inside the pitcher
- The pitcher must throw the ball.
- She broke the pitcher by accident.
- The pitchers exude a sweet nectar.
- The wife filled a pitcher with water.
- Everyone got to have either a pitcher or a jar.
- Furthermore, the pitcher had to throw underhand.
- The lid is similar to that of the lower pitchers.
- Finally, the water rose to the top of the pitcher.
- Now the pitcher is able to check any other runners.
- The contents of the pitcher splashed over the floor.
- And 2 pints plus a third of a pitcher is a bit much for a weeknight ... next time!
- Only one pitcher is the only pitcher from the Tigers 'season-opening rotation who's still active.
- I come to what I called the pitcher, with which we draw the water for our own use -- 'that whosoever believeth.'
- It's akin to a baseball player taking home run swings at fastballs, only to suddenly notice that the "pitcher" is actually playing badminton.
- It doesn't matter what kind of pitcher is on the mound or what kind of situation it is - he gets the head of the bat on the ball and hits it hard somewhere.
- Re-warming a pitcher is a bad idea, but there's usually some player out there just itching to try out his knuckleball on live hitters or something like that.