1. A person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left
   "The baseball team needed more righties in their pitching rotation";
   - right-hander, right hander, righthander
    
2. (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand
   "The team's ace was a dominant righty";
   - right-handed pitcher, right-hander
    
3. A member of a right wing political party
   "The righty defended traditional conservative values";
   - rightist, right-winger

Derived forms: righties

Type of: conservative, conservativist, hurler [N. Amer, informal], individual, mortal, person, pitcher, somebody, someone, soul, twirler

Encyclopedia: Righty