💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Wicketkeeper"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wicketkeepingnoun | (cricket) The role of the wicketkeeper. |
| backstopnoun | A default arrangement that holds if all else fails. |
| keepernoun | (informal) A person or thing worth keeping. |
| wicketnoun | A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. |
| wicket takernoun | (cricket) A person who takes a wicket in the game of cricket |
| long stopnoun | (cricket) A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position |
| caught behindnoun | (cricket) Out by being caught by the wicketkeeper. |
| wickienoun | (sports, cricket, colloquial, British) A wicketkeeper. |
| wicket-keeping glovesnoun | (cricket) Protective gloves worn by a wicket keeper to cushion the hands when repeatedly catching balls. |
| glovemannoun | A boxer. |
| strikernoun | A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest. |
| blocknoun | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. |
| fieldernoun | (baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field. |
| guardnoun | A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. |
| non-strikernoun | (cricket) The batsman standing at the bowler's end of the pitch. |
| catchnoun | (countable) The act of seizing or capturing. |
| middle stumpnoun | (cricket) the stump in the middle of the batsman's wicket |
| nightwatchmannoun | Someone who guards a premises at night. |
| batsmannoun | (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field. |
| catchernoun | (baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher. |
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