fly-pitcher
noun1
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.1995, Colin Clark, The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-wise Marketing, page 173:
- 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 142015 July/August, Tom Chiarella, quoting Jason Statham, “Jason Statham for your amusement”, in Esquire, page 52: