Meaning of Pitcher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.
   alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
3. A surname.
4. One who pitches (in any sense) anything
5. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
6. The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
7. A drug dealer.
   slang
8. One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
   UK, obsolete, slang
9. The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
   US, colloquial
10. A sort of crowbar for digging.
    obsolete
11. One who makes a pitch or proposal.
12. A person who sells anything in the streets.
    UK, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“A tent pitcher”

“A pitcher of ideas”

“A quoits pitcher”

“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.”

“To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.”

“To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.”

“The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.”

“At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.”

“She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?”

“Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.”

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