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Right-hander   /raɪt-hˈændər/   Listen
Right-hander

noun
1.
(baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand.  Synonym: right-handed pitcher.
2.
A person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left.  Synonyms: right hander, righthander.






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"Right-hander" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his way to the kitchen cupboard. And it was not his fault that the cream pitcher fell when he took the sugarbowl from the shelf. Jerry made a quick and nice southpaw catch. Pretty good, he thought, for a right-hander. He hadn't been able to use his right because it was holding the sugarbowl. He had dumped the sugar into a cereal dish and was busily pouring salt into the sugarbowl when his mother entered ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson

... give it to them!" declared Jim. "I wouldn't be put upon and called baby and a mollycoddle and have that Perkins crowding me off the line and losing marks. I'd give him such a right-hander his head would hum like ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas

... young chap who had stopped us, and noticed him still sitting there, with his feet swinging backward and forward and a look of triumph on his face, I suddenly changed my course, and stepping up to him, quickly dealt him a right-hander straight from the shoulder. He received the blow directly under the chin, and it set him spinning around the rail like a trapeze performer on a horizontal bar. I then returned to the wagon, climbed in, picked up my club and made ...
— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

... met them at the ferry, giving one a right-hander on the nose and the other an upper-cut with his left, just to let them know that the ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry



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