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Right-hander

noun

(baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand. Synonym: right-handed pitcher.

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

... 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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