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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Attendees can take advantage of free health screenings, interactive vendors, children’s entertainment, medical equipment demonstrations, giveaways, raffles, free haircuts and guest speakers in a family-friendly environment.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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The lawsuit cites four products a furniture vendor agreed to stop providing to an undisclosed competitor because of its low prices.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Jonathan, who was making his Broadway debut, was the bird seller and part of the musical ensemble.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Vancouver Police offers a safe location outside their headquarters where buyers and sellers can meet, according to a police report posted on social media.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Her proximity to political commentator and conspiracy peddler Candace Owens, and her reluctance to distance herself from Owens’ escalating claims, has become a defining — and increasingly uncomfortable — feature of her brand.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2026
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In a matter of a few years this former peddler had opened a store upriver in Donaldsonville, first in his house and then in the town square, and was advertising goods for sale that came from as far away as Cincinnati and New York.—
Brenda Wineapple,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Now in its 10th year in the Golden State, TinyFest brings together dozens of homebuilders and merchants who showcase the concept, their many shapes and forms, all in one place.—
Amancai Biraben,
Oc Register,
18 Apr. 2026
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The San Jose pot merchant’s experience isn’t unique.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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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 24 Apr. 2026.
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