Pitcher

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who pitches (in any sense) anything

   “A tent pitcher”

2. isim The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

   “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.”

3. isim A drug dealer.

   “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.”

4. isim One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.

   “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.”

5. isim The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
6. isim A sort of crowbar for digging.
7. isim One who makes a pitch or proposal.

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

8. isim A person who sells anything in the streets.
9. isim 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.

   “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.”

10. isim A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
11. isim Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.

    “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?”

12. özel isim A surname.