runner

Nouns

  • (n) someone who imports or exports without paying duties contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, smuggler,
  • (n) someone who travels on foot by running
  • (n) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
    • he sent a runner over with the contract
  • (n) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) base runner,
  • (n) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips stolon, offset,
  • (n) a trained athlete who competes in foot races
  • (n) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play ball carrier,
  • (n) a long narrow carpet
  • (n) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
  • (n) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil blue runner, Caranx crysos,

Synonyms

contrabandist moon curser smuggler base runner stolon offset ball carrier blue runner Caranx crysos

Words of close approximity

runnel
runny
runnel
runner bean runner-up runner-up finish