Pitcher

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

42 more languages

العربيةأبريق، القاذفإبريقحقزير+ 1 more

Azərbaycan dilidolça

བོད་སྐད།ཟངས་རྐྱནརྫ་རྐྱན

Bosanskibacačkankrčagkrčažićkrugбацачбокалкрчагкрчажић+ 6 more

Catalàgerrallançador

Češtinadžbán

Cymraegstên

Ελληνικάκανάταστάμναυδρία

Esperantoĵetantolanĉulo

فارسیپارچ

Suomikaadinkannulukkarisyöttäjävesikannu+ 2 more

Gàidhligcrogansoitheach

Galegocanecopichelxerra

עבריתכדקנקן

हिन्दीइब्रीक़कलशकलसा

Hrvatskibacačkankrčagkrčažićkrugбацачбокалкрчагкрчажић+ 6 more

Magyardobókancsókorsó

Հայերենկարասկուժսափոր

Bahasa Indonesiakendi

Íslenskakanna

Italianoattivobroccacaraffalanciatore+ 1 more

日本語ピッチャー投手水差し

한국어주전자투수피처

Kurdîkan

Latinafutissuffusoriumurceus

Latviešukrūze

Македонскибокалкондирфрлач

മലയാളംകിണ്ടി

Nederlandskanwerper

Polskidzbankrużamiotacz

Portuguêsativojarrajarrolançador+ 1 more

Русскийкувшинпи́тчер

Slovenčinadžbán

Shqipbrokekënatështambë

Српскиbacačkankrčagkrčažićkrugбацачбокалкрчагкрчажић+ 6 more

Svenskakastaretillbringare

Kiswahilinzio

தமிழ்கிண்டிசெம்பு

ไทยกุณฑีกุมภ์เต้าน้ำเหยือก+ 1 more

Tagalogpitsel

Türkçeatıcısürahi

Українськаглекглечик

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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