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pitches up

pitches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pitch up.

Meaning of pitch up

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To arrive; to turn up.
    • David Cameron pitched up in New York at lunchtime on Wednesday for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly less than a week after an ecstatic reception on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.2011, "David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian
  2. (transitive) To raise the pitch of (a sound).
  3. (transitive) To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length.

Questions about pitches up

What is pitches up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pitches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pitch up.

Words near pitches up in the dictionary

  1. pitches in
  2. pitches into
  3. pitches on
  4. pitches out
  5. pitches the tent
  6. pitches up
  7. pitches upon
  8. pitches woo
  9. pitchest
  10. pitcheth
  11. pitchfest

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