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queers someone's pitch

queers someone's pitch is the third-person singular simple present indicative of queer someone's pitch.

Meaning of queer someone's pitch

Verb

queer someone's pitch (third-person singular simple present queers someone's pitch, present participle queering someone's pitch, simple past and past participle queered someone's pitch)

  1. (UK, dated, idiomatic) To make a task more difficult for someone.
    • "Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?"
      "Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go."1880, The Era Almanack

Questions about queers someone's pitch

What is queers someone's pitch the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Queers someone's pitch is the third-person singular simple present indicative of queer someone's pitch.

Words near queers someone's pitch in the dictionary

  1. queerphobes
  2. queerphobia
  3. queerphobic
  4. queerplatonic
  5. queers
  6. queers someone's pitch
  7. queers up
  8. queersome
  9. queerspawn
  10. queerspeak
  11. queersploitation

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