pitching
n.— «If it wasn’t for that building out in Queens that had almost all the best eastcoast indy’s stars in it…I probably be working a good job or on the corner pitching to the pot heads!» —“All Money is Legal interview With DOI questions” by Mike Z, Kash-Murda Official Site of All Money Is Legal Dec. 24, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
In an interview about her magisterial history of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns (Bookshop|Amazon), Isabel Wilkerson noted that her own writing process poses the same challenge any writer has: “One word followed by another word...