huckster
1. a seller of shoddy goods (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
cheap-jack
• Hypernyms:
seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker
2. a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
• Hypernyms:
advertiser, advertizer, adman
1. sell or offer for sale from place to place (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
peddle, monger, hawk, vend, pitch
• Derivationally related forms:
pitch (for: pitch), vendible (for: vend), vendable (for: vend), vendition (for: vend), vender (for: vend), vendor (for: vend), vending (for: vend), hawker (for: hawk), hawking (for: hawk), monger (for: monger), peddler (for: peddle), peddling (for: peddle)
• Hypernyms:
deal, sell, trade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Sam and Sue huckster
- Sam wants to huckster with Sue
2. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- Let's not haggle over a few dollars
• Syn:
haggle, higgle, chaffer
• Derivationally related forms:
haggler (for: haggle), haggling (for: haggle), haggle (for: haggle)
• Hypernyms:
dicker, bargain
• Hyponyms:
beat down, bargain down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
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