HUCKSTER

Huckster

A huckster is a person who sells small articles, either door-to-door or from a stall or small store, like a certain type of peddler, pedlar or hawker. In the United States, there developed a connotation of trickery – the huckster might trick others into buying cheap imitation products as if they were the real thing. However, the original meaning had no connotation of trickery.

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huckster

Noun

  1. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
  2. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
  3. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
  4. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
  5. A mean, deceptive person.

Verb

  1. To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
  2. To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
  3. To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.


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