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fly-pitcher en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching.
    • 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 2015 July/August, Tom Chiarella, quoting Jason Statham, “Jason Statham for your amusement”, in Esquire, page 52:
    • 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. 1995, Colin Clark, The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-wise Marketing, page 173:

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