peddler
Other forms: peddlers
A peddler is a specific type of salesperson: someone who travels from town to town selling their wares.
A peddler is someone who sells things, but it's a very specific type of selling. Peddlers — also known as hawkers and pitchmen — travel from town to town, especially with a carnival or circus. Peddlers are also found on the street, selling many different things, from jewelry to DVDs. There's a shady implication to this word, since peddlers have included people selling snake oil and other worthless products. Instead of buying from a peddler, you're probably better off at a store.
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someone who travels about selling wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)types:chapmanarchaic term for an itinerant peddlercheapjacka peddler of inferior goodscriera peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sellsmuffin manformerly an itinerant peddler of muffinssandboya young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'transmigrantea Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to selltype of:marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendorsomeone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugssynonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher
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