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huckster
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As a noun, huckster means a peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street. As a verb, it means haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
Meanings of huckster
9 meaningsnoun
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
A seller of shoddy goodsperson
Similar: cheap-jack
verb
To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).