packman

Other forms: packmen

Definitions of packman
  1. noun
    someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
    synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman
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    chapman
    archaic term for an itinerant peddler
    cheapjack
    a peddler of inferior goods
    crier
    a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
    muffin man
    formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins
    sandboy
    a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'
    transmigrante
    a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell
    type of:
    marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor
    someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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