as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors
street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art
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Recent Examples of hawker
There also did not appear to be many hawkers, who stand on the sidewalk with binders filled with photographs of different items that are later retrieved from a storefront, storage bin or other location upon request.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Don’t miss the katong laksa and ayam buah keluak (an iconic Peranakan dish, and a personal favorite of mine) prepared by Shangri-La chefs in collaboration with local cooks from Singapore’s hawker centers.
—Elizabeth See, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Don’t miss the katong laksa and ayam buah keluak (an iconic Peranakan dish, and a personal favorite of mine) prepared by Shangri-La chefs in collaboration with local cooks from Singapore’s hawker centers.
—Elizabeth See, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawker
Noun
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Home to 710 stores and vendors, mostly Somali retailers serving Somali patrons, the mall was plastered with anti-ICE posters due to daily raids, according to Sabri.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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According to procurement documents, officials determined that awarding the contract to any vendor other than Boeing would cause delays.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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Excluding models originally released prior to 2025, the Nike Ja 3 was the top seller and was followed directly by Wilson’s Nike A’One.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Pinchos de lechon, the top seller from the 2025 festival, is back at the Puerto Rico kiosk, and it’s joined by coconut flancocho, a dessert selected in a contest among Universal chefs.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Levi Strauss was born on February 26, 1829 as the youngest of seven children of a Jewish peddler in Buttenheim, Franconia.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Jan. 2026
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Valparaíso colorful houses and civic buildings reflect the diversity of its residents—an international mix of merchants and sailors has occupied the town for hundreds of years.—
Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
15 Feb. 2026
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But guilds of merchants in places like Venice or banking commissions in states like Minnesota eventually set uniform regulations.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
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Del Toro was such an amiable huckster.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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