chapmen

noun

plural of chapman, British
as in peddlers

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  1. peddlers
  2. hawkers
  3. hucksters
  4. retailers
  5. distributors
  6. salesmen
Noun
  • But as the January date approached, Atkin and Jammi’s research showed that intermediaries were still sending money to prominent peddlers of election conspiracies like Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
  • Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 28 May 2026
Definition of peddlers
Noun
  • The peanut hawkers at sports venues over a century ago wouldn’t recognize the diversity of food—or seating types—in today’s modern stadium.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • There will be huge crowds in the Battery and Downtown Thursday for the Knicks parade and afterwards some will be interested in going to Liberty and Ellis, making easy prey for the hawkers.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
Definition of hawkers
Noun
  • The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of hucksters
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  • Federal officials have found that a person’s movements on a website with a computer mouse and items left in an online shopping cart can be tracked and used by retailers to personalize the cost of items.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026
  • The launch joins other retailers in the industry that have leaned on AI to make the shopping experience more personalized.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 10 July 2026
Definition of retailers
Noun
  • Despite the cool reception from distributors, the pair haven’t given up, and still plan on shopping their movie to either a streamer or theatrical distributor.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of distributors
Noun
  • In one sense, snake men like Underwood were no different from present-day gadget and ointment salesmen.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • The people who work during the day did not go home — secretaries, anybody, salesmen — just to be in Frank Sinatra's presence.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
Definition of salesmen
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