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.

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