fly-pitcher

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English

Noun

fly-pitcher (plural fly-pitchers)

  1. An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching.
    • 1995, Colin Clark, The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-wise Marketing, page 173:
      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.
    • 2015 July/August, Tom Chiarella, quoting Jason Statham, “Jason Statham for your amusement”, in Esquire, page 52:
      Once, Jason Statham sold cheap watches. Among other pieces of crap. “I was a ‘fly pitcher’ is what they call it,” he says. He used the streets of London to make a living, starting when he was around 14