pitcher

1. (baseball, softball) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.Examples: "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."

2. (slang) A drug dealer.Examples: "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."slang

3. (obsolete, UK, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.Examples: "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."Synonyms: snide pitcherUKobsoleteslang

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

5. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.obsolete

6. (obsolete, UK, slang) A person who sells anything in the streets.UKobsoleteslang