to queer a pitch
»Business is business; and I ain’t going to queer ’er pitch for ’er.» (T. T. T. 137. 7.)
Uneducated young Londoner.
To queer a pitch is to spoil a chance of business.
Pitch (vulgar) is a place of sale or entertainment. »He had fixed his pitch outside.» (T. T. T. 124. 10.) Germ. Stand, Bude.
Cf. To queer = to spoil, to outwit.
To queer the stifler: to cheat the hangman; to queer fate: to get the better of the inevitable.
rocky
»She is a bit rocky.»—