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queer someone's pitch en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, dated, idiomatic) To make a task more difficult for someone.
    • "Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?" "Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go." 1880, The Era Almanack:
    • —no question, global buffeting has queered our pitch for growth in many ways, currency down-down, oil prices up-up— 2002, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Bloomsbury, published 2001, page 45:

Forms

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queered someone's pitch Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
queered someone's pitch Tense=Past lexicographic
queers someone's pitch Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
queering someone's pitch Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic