fly-pitcher
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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"