Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “pitcher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:
To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shofulpitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
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1934, William Byron Mowery, Challenge of the North:
She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
2015, Stephen Gresham, Rockabye Baby:
Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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