catcher

Etymology

catch + -er

noun

  1. Someone or something that catches.
  2. (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher
  3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
  4. (archaic) A wrestler.

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