pitch woo
Court, make love to, flatter, as in They sat on the porch swing, pitching woo, or He's an excellent salesman, adept at pitching woo. This idiom, which may be obsolescent, uses pitch in the sense of “talk.” [Slang; early 1800s]
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- pitch pipe,
- pitch plane,
- pitch shot,
- pitch surface,
- pitch wart,
- pitch-and-putt,
- pitch-and-run shot,
- pitch-and-toss,
- pitch-black,
- pitch-cone angle
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