queer someone's pitch

verb

To make a task more difficult for someone.

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Meanings

verbqueer someone's pitch (third-person singular simple present queers someone's pitch, present participle queering someone's pitch, simple past and past participle queered someone's pitch)

present singular third person queers someone's pitch · participle present queering someone's pitch · participle past queered someone's pitch · past queered someone's pitch

  1. UKdatedidiomaticTo make a task more difficult for someone.

    —no question, global buffeting has queered our pitch for growth in many ways, currency down-down, oil prices up-up—

    2002, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Bloomsbury, published 2001, page 45
    1 more example

    "Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?" "Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go."

    1880, The Era Almanack
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