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flypitcher

flypitcher is the alternative form of fly-pitcher.

Meaning of fly-pitcher

Noun

fly-pitcher (plural fly-pitchers)

  1. An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching.
    • Because of their ‘here today, gone today’ character, fly pitchers do not have to worry about selling to more or less the same pool of customers or passers-by week in, week out.1995, Colin Clark, The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-wise Marketing, page 173

Forms of flypitcher

pluralflypitchers

Questions about flypitcher

What is flypitcher the alternative form of?
Flypitcher is the alternative form of fly-pitcher.

Words near flypitcher in the dictionary

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

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