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fly-pitching

fly-pitching is the present participle and gerund 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-pitching

What is fly-pitching the present participle and gerund of?
Fly-pitching is the present participle and gerund of fly-pitch.

Words near fly-pitching in the dictionary

  1. fly-pitch
  2. fly-pitched
  3. fly-pitcher
  4. fly-pitchers
  5. fly-pitches
  6. fly-pitching
  7. fly-post
  8. fly-posted
  9. fly-poster
  10. fly-posters
  11. fly-posting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fly-pitching (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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