RUNNER

Definition of RUNNER

  1. (noun)someone who imports or exports without paying duties
  2. (noun)someone who travels on foot by running
  3. (noun)a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
  4. (noun)a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
  5. (noun)a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
  6. (noun)a trained athlete who competes in foot races
  7. (noun)(football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
  8. (noun)a long narrow carpet
  9. (noun)device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
  10. (noun)fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil