Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that spits: a spitter of invective.
- n. Baseball See spitball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who puts meat on a spit.
- n. A young deer whose antlers are spitted; a brocket or pricket.
- n. One who spits, or ejects saliva from the mouth.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who or animal or object that spits.
- n. baseball A spitball.
- n. One who puts meat on a spit.
- n. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
- n. One who puts meat on a spit.
- n. (Zoöl.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
- n. an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
Examples
“The Twitter equivalent is the "spitter" -- users with botnets that create fake Twitter profiles, auto-follow users in order to get them to follow back, and spew out things like porn-related links.”
“The rules against corking bats, applying foreign substances to the ball, and so forth are cheats that either don’t work, or require a fair amount of skill to execute (a spitter is not an easy pitch to throw).”
“I mix it up with my other things, of course, but the spitter is my main defence, that and my fastball.”
“A spitter is a freak in a regular tempest -- a midsummer madness of weather upheaval.”
“I guarantee the wingnuts claim that Cleaver refused to press charges so it would not be known that the spitter was a Union or Acorn plant.”
“The very first article posted last week about the "spitter" said that the TEA Party protesters gathered on a "grassy knoll".”
“Michael Jackson and variants owned Twitter Trends when the news broke; now it is off the home-page list MJ’s is there, but that appears to be the handiwork of a Twitter spammer a "spitter"?”
“Smif-N-Wessun kept the energy high over the marathon evening with a precise team delivery of "Let's Git It On" and "Stand Strong" from its classic album "Dah Shinin '" before the purest Boot Camp spitter, Sean Price, led a rap-along over a collection of his multilayered verses.”
“I've seen some godawful rifles, but I can't say I've ever seen a spitter.”
“Ruth was hitting a huge number of homeruns (20 on the road in 1919 in about 65 games) before the lively ball, before the ban on the spitter, before anything.”
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