English > hawker: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals). |
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| Synonyms | peddler, pedlar, packman, pitchman |
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| Narrower | chapman | Archaic term for an itinerant peddler |
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| cheapjack | A peddler of inferior / 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 |
| transmigrante | A Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell |
| Broader | seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker | someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money |
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| Spanish | buhonero, vendedor ambulante |
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| Catalan | venedor ambulant, viatjant |
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| Verbs | hawk | sell or offer for sale from place to place |
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