Meaning of pitch up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To arrive; to turn up.
   informal, intransitive
2. To raise the pitch of (a sound).
   transitive
3. To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“David Cameron pitched up in New York at lunchtime on Wednesday for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly less than a week after an ecstatic reception on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.”

“It has realised the hard way that it is not enough just to pitch up at a by-election with a loud hailer and some media-friendly stunts, it requires months, even years, of groundwork in the local area.”

CEFR level