fly-pitcher

plural fly-pitchers

1. 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

   1 more example

   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

   2015 July/August, Tom Chiarella, quoting Jason Statham, “Jason Statham for your amusement”, in Esquire, page 52