What does fly-pitcher mean?
Fly-pitcher means An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching..
Because of their ‘here today, gone today’ character, fly pitchers do not have to worry about selling to more or less the same pool of customers or passers-by week in, week out.
Once, Jason Statham sold cheap watches. Among other pieces of crap. “I was a ‘fly pitcher’ is what they call it,” he says. He used the streets of London to make a living, starting when he was around 14
Use fly-pitcher when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fly-pitcher means An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Because of their ‘here today, gone today’ character, fly pitchers do not have to worry about selling to more or less the same pool of customers or passers-by week in, week out.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.