Huckster - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈhʌkstər|
Brit.
|ˈhʌkstə|
noun
- a seller of shoddy goods
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
verb
- sell or offer for sale from place to place (syn: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend)
- wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) (syn: chaffer, haggle, higgle)
- wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) (syn: chaffer, haggle, higgle)
Extra examples
...hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the rock star...
I am no huckster, to sell my daughter to the best bidder.
The estates irritated the Prince of Orange by huckstering about subsidies.
Word forms
noun
singular: huckster
plural: hucksters
singular: huckster
plural: hucksters
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