pass catcher

1. 1.

   a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass

   Synonymsreceiverpass receiver

   Broaderfootball player

Questions about pass catcher

What does pass catcher mean?

pass catcher means "a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass".

What is another word for pass catcher?

Close synonyms include receiver, pass receiver. 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 pass catcher a common word?

pass catcher 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.