runner (n.)

  1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

    [ Syn: smuggler , contrabandist , moon curser , moon-curser ]

  2. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

    [ Syn: blue runner , caranx crysos ]

  3. someone who travels on foot by running

  4. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; he sent a runner over with the contract'

  5. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

    [ Syn: base runner ]

  6. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

    [ Syn: stolon , offset ]

  7. a trained athlete who competes in foot races

  8. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

    [ Syn: ball carrier ]

  9. a long narrow carpet

  10. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

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