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Catcher

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
backstop
plural
Catchers
possessive
Catcher's
pluralpossessive
Catchers'