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pitch up en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, intransitive) To arrive; to turn up.
It has realised the hard way that it is not enough just to pitch up at a by-election with a loud hailer and some media-friendly stunts, it requires months, even years, of groundwork in the local area.
2013, “How UKIP became a British political force”, in BBC:David Cameron pitched up in New York at lunchtime on Wednesday for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly less than a week after an ecstatic reception on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.
2011, "David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian
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(transitive) To raise the pitch of (a sound).
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(transitive) To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length.
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