Definition of huckster Huckster

/hʌˈkstɚ/ - [hukster] - huck•ster

We found 15 definitions of huckster from 5 different sources.

What does huckster mean?

Noun Plural: hucksters
huckster - a seller of shoddy goods
		cheap-jack
		marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
huckster - a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

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huckster (Noun)
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
huckster (Noun)
Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
huckster (Noun)
One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
huckster (Noun)
Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
huckster (Noun)
A mean, deceptive person.
huckster (Verb)
To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
huckster (Verb)
To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
huckster (Verb)
To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.

huckster (n.)
A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
huckster (n.)
A mean, trickish fellow.
huckster (v. i.)
To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

huckster
huk′stėr, n. a retailer of smallwares, a hawker or pedlar: a mean, trickish fellow:—fem. Huck′stress.—v.i. to deal in small articles, to higgle meanly.—n. Huck′sterage, business of a huckster. [With fem. suff. -ster, from Dut. heuker, a retailer, Old Dut. hucken, to stoop or bow; cf. Ice. húka, to sit on one's hams, and Eng. hawker.]