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
Unregistered hawker & peddler ordinance.
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawker
Noun
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Every major city contract, vendor and lobbyist interaction will be easily accessible online, so residents can see who is doing business with the city and under what terms.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Local vendors were also on-site with food and drinks.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026
Noun
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The bill would require food safety training, registration with the state and allow health departments to maintain a registry of sellers.—
Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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There are more than 1,000 sellers on Stacked Golf, hawking putters, irons, and golf towels.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
Noun
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The consequences are visible in the rising numbers of street peddlers in Tehran.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Chatting with the peddler Rutherford Selig (Bradley Stryker, enjoyably channeling Deadwood), Bynum casually unzips the surface of reality and dips into the waters below.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Massachusetts governor during the Boston Tea Party, Thomas Hutchinson, was a local merchant.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Yemen monopolized the coffee trade for around 200 years until Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Indonesia and began growing plants there.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Even as physicians began to professionalize care during the nineteenth century, most people were purchasing remedies from hucksters.—
Dr. Marschall Runge,
Forbes.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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The best parts are the musical ones, of course, but there's plenty of deliciously trashy John Waters-style cheese happening too, with silly subplots and exaggerated teen stereotypes (nerd, huckster, prep, secretly beautiful girl with glasses) all adding up to the perfect party movie.—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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