fly-pitcher

Definitions

1. 1

   An illicit street trader

   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.
   • 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

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