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flypitch

flypitch is the alternative form 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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Forms of flypitch

third-person singular presentflypitches
present participleflypitching
past participleflypitched
pastflypitched

Questions about flypitch

What is flypitch the alternative form of?
Flypitch is the alternative form of fly-pitch.

Words near flypitch in the dictionary

  1. flyped
  2. flypeople
  3. flyperson
  4. flypes
  5. flyping
  6. flypitch
  7. flypitcher
  8. flypitches
  9. flypost
  10. flyposted
  11. flyposter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flypitch (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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