"pitch up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pitches up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitching up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitched up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitched up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pitch up (third-person singular simple present pitches up, present participle pitching up, simple past and past participle pitched up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, \"David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine\", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, “How UKIP became a British political force”, in BBC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrive; to turn up."
      ],
      "id": "en-pitch_up-en-verb-rP~sXmpS",
      "links": [
        [
          "arrive",
          "arrive"
        ],
        [
          "turn up",
          "turn up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, intransitive) To arrive; to turn up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To raise the pitch of (a sound)."
      ],
      "id": "en-pitch_up-en-verb-G0utqCMF",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To raise the pitch of (a sound)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cricket",
          "orig": "en:Cricket",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 7 76",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 10 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 9 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 8 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length."
      ],
      "id": "en-pitch_up-en-verb-JHkVHZs~",
      "links": [
        [
          "cricket",
          "cricket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, cricket) To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "cricket",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pitch up"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pitches up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitching up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitched up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitched up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pitch up (third-person singular simple present pitches up, present participle pitching up, simple past and past participle pitched up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, \"David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine\", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, “How UKIP became a British political force”, in BBC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrive; to turn up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "arrive",
          "arrive"
        ],
        [
          "turn up",
          "turn up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, intransitive) To arrive; to turn up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To raise the pitch of (a sound)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To raise the pitch of (a sound)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Cricket"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cricket",
          "cricket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, cricket) To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "cricket",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pitch up"
}