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fly-pitched

fly-pitched is the simple past and past participle of fly-pitch.

Meaning of fly-pitch

Verb

fly-pitch (third-person singular simple present fly-pitches, present participle fly-pitching, simple past and past participle fly-pitched)

  1. To sell goods on the street without a vendor's licence, usually from a small suitcase, wooden crate, etc., ready to depart hurriedly if the authorities arrive.
    • “Oh, come on, Tiny”, the trader from the fruit stall said lightly trying to ease the tension, “we all started that way. I ’ad to fly pitch for months before I got me license.”1990, Anna King, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, →ISBN, page 10

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Questions about fly-pitched

What is fly-pitched the simple past and past participle of?
Fly-pitched is the simple past and past participle of fly-pitch.

Words near fly-pitched in the dictionary

  1. fly-papering
  2. fly-papers
  3. fly-past
  4. fly-pasts
  5. fly-pitch
  6. fly-pitched
  7. fly-pitcher
  8. fly-pitchers
  9. fly-pitches
  10. fly-pitching
  11. fly-post

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fly-pitched (page history and authors); fly-pitch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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