Definition of hawker Hawker
/hɔˈkɚ/ - [hoker] - hawk•er
We found 10 definitions of hawker from 5 different sources.
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What does hawker mean?
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| hawker - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | ||
| peddler, pedlar, packman, pitchman | ||
| marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | ||
| 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' | ||
| hawker - a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | ||
| falconer | ||
| huntsman, hunter a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hawker (n.)
One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman. - hawker (v. i.)
To sell goods by outcry in the street. - hawker (n.)
A falconer.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hawker
hawk′ėr, n. one who carries about goods for sale on his back, a pedlar.—v.t. Hawk, to carry about for sale: to cry for sale. [Cf. Low Ger. and Ger. höker, Dut. heuker.]
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🔤- hawker, noun, singular of hawkers.
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