catcher

See also: Catcher and cátcher

English

Etymology

From catch +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæt͡ʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈkɛt͡ʃ-/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ), -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: catch‧er

Noun

catcher (plural catchers)

1. Someone or something that catches.
2. (baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
   • 1989 February 13, Roger Angell, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion, Ballantine Books, page 22:

     Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.

   • 2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210:

     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.

   • 2021, University of the District of Columbia, “The plate umpire may suspend play because of darkness”, in Course Hero:

     At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.

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

   Synonym: bottom

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

   Synonym: trapper

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

Coordinate terms

• (baseball player): infielder, outfielder, pitcher

Derived terms

• baby-catcher
• babycatcher
• beau-catcher
• birdcatcher
• bird-catcher tree
• bluff catcher
• boot catcher
• catcatcher
• catcher interference
• catcher-upper
• caterpillar catcher
• cony-catcher
• cootie catcher
• cow catcher
• cowcatcher
• cum-catcher
• cum catcher
• dogcatcher
• dog-catcher
• dream catcher
• dreamcatcher
• eye-catcher, eyecatcher
• fartcatcher
• fishcatcher
• flack catcher
• flack-catcher
• flak catcher
• flak-catcher
• flycatcher
• fly-catcher
• gamecatcher
• gnatcatcher
• grass catcher
• mailcatcher
• man catcher
• molecatcher
• oyster-catcher
• oystercatcher
• podcatcher
• ratcatcher
• slavecatcher
• spear catcher
• spider-catcher
• spycatcher
• stonecatcher
• suncatcher
• tear catcher
• time-catcher
• torpedo catcher
• windcatcher

Translations

that which catches

• Bulgarian: уловител m (ulovitel)
• Dutch: vanger (nl) m
• Finnish: sieppaaja (fi), pyydystäjä (fi), pyytäjä (fi)
• French: attrapeur (fr) m
• German: Fänger (de) m
• Greek: πιάστης (el) m (piástis)
• Hungarian: fogó (hu)
• Italian: collettore (it) m
• Lithuanian: gaudytojas
• Old English: *fenġa m
• Portuguese: coletor (pt) m
• Russian: ула́вливатель (ru) m (ulávlivatelʹ)
• Spanish: colector (es) m
• Swedish: fångare (sv) c
• Welsh: daliwr

baseball player who receives pitches

• Bulgarian: кетчър m (ketčǎr)
• Catalan: receptor (ca) m, receptora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕手 (zh) (bǔshǒu)

• Czech: chytač m, zadák m
• Dutch: catcher (nl) m or f, achtervanger (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaptanto
• Finnish: sieppari (fi)
• French: receveur (fr) m, receveuse (fr) f
• German: Catcher (de) m, Catcherin f, Fänger (de) m, Fängerin (de) f
• Hungarian: elkapó
• Italian: ricevitore (it) m
• Japanese: キャッチャー (ja) (kyatchā), 捕手 (ja) (ほしゅ, hoshu)
• Korean: 캐처 (kaecheo), 포수(捕手) (ko) (posu)
• Maori: tautopenga
• Portuguese: receptor (pt) m
• Russian: кэ́тчер m (kɛ́tčer)
• Spanish: receptor (es) m
• Swedish: catcher (sv) c, fångare (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagasalo

Anagrams

• recatch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat.ʃe/

• Audio:

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Verb

catcher

1. to wrestle
2. (Quebec) to catch
3. (Quebec) to catch, get (understand fully)

   T'as ben catché?

   Ya got it?

Conjugation

Conjugation of catcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	catcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	catchant /kat.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		catché /kat.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	catche /katʃ/	catches /katʃ/	catche /katʃ/	catchons /kat.ʃɔ̃/	catchez /kat.ʃe/	catchent /katʃ/
	imperfect	catchais /kat.ʃɛ/	catchais /kat.ʃɛ/	catchait /kat.ʃɛ/	catchions /kat.ʃjɔ̃/	catchiez /kat.ʃje/	catchaient /kat.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	catchai /kat.ʃe/	catchas /kat.ʃa/	catcha /kat.ʃa/	catchâmes /kat.ʃam/	catchâtes /kat.ʃat/	catchèrent /kat.ʃɛʁ/
	future	catcherai /kat.ʃə.ʁe/	catcheras /kat.ʃə.ʁa/	catchera /kat.ʃə.ʁa/	catcherons /kat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	catcherez /kat.ʃə.ʁe/	catcheront /kat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	catcherais /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherais /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherait /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherions /kat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	catcheriez /kat.ʃə.ʁje/	catcheraient /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	catche /katʃ/	catches /katʃ/	catche /katʃ/	catchions /kat.ʃjɔ̃/	catchiez /kat.ʃje/	catchent /katʃ/
	imperfect2	catchasse /kat.ʃas/	catchasses /kat.ʃas/	catchât /kat.ʃa/	catchassions /kat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	catchassiez /kat.ʃa.sje/	catchassent /kat.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	catche /katʃ/	—	catchons /kat.ʃɔ̃/	catchez /kat.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Anagrams

• créchât

Spanish

Noun

catcher m (plural catchers)

1. (baseball) catcher