relief pitcher

1. 1.

   a pitcher who does not start the game

   Synonymsrelieverfireman

   Broaderpitcher

   Narrowercloser

Questions about relief pitcher

What does relief pitcher mean?

relief pitcher means "a pitcher who does not start the game".

What is another word for relief pitcher?

Close synonyms include reliever, fireman. 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 relief pitcher a common word?

relief pitcher 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.