SkyfireDict

runner   (TTS Sound)

The noun runner has 10 senses

• smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser -- (someone who imports or exports without paying duties)


• runner -- (someone who travels on foot by running)


• runner -- (a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract")


• base runner, runner -- (a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base))


• stolon, runner, offset -- (a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips)


• runner -- (a trained athlete who competes in foot races)


• ball carrier, runner -- ((football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play)


• runner -- (a long narrow carpet)


• runner -- (device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along)


• runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos -- (fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil)