English Dictionary

pitcher

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɪt͡ʃɚ/

名詞

俗語 イギリス英語 廃用 アメリカ英語 口語

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc. / (baseball, softball) The player who delivers the ball to the batter. / (slang) A drug dealer.

日本語の意味

（野球、ソフトボールなどにおける）投手 / 物（例えば、藁、クォイツ、球など）を投げる人 / （スラングで）麻薬ディーラー

The pitcher stepped forward and heaved the heavy hay bale onto the wagon with surprising precision.

その投げ手は前に出て、驚くほど正確に重い干し草の俵を荷車に投げ入れた。

意味（1）

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.

意味（2）

(baseball, softball) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

意味（3）

(slang) 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.

意味（4）

(obsolete, UK, slang) 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.

意味（5）

(chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.

pitchers （ plural ）