What does left hander mean?

left hander means "a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand".

What is another word for left hander?

Close synonyms include left-handed pitcher, left-hander, lefthander, lefty, southpaw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is left hander a common word?

left hander is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

left hander — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand
Synonymsleft-handed pitcher left-hander lefthander lefty southpaw
Broaderpitcher

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What does left hander mean?: left hander means "a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand".

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