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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For a few seconds, everyone at Progressive Field — players, umpires, fans, cotton candy vendors — stared at the video board, awaiting the handy diagram that would determine whether the Cleveland Guardians’ lead was in jeopardy.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Organized by the Encinitas 101 MainStreet Association, the event featured more than 450 vendors selling arts, crafts, and international food, plus several entertainment stages and a dog-friendly beer garden.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Such a transaction takes some of the leverage out of the seller’s grasp on the transaction.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2026
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This set, which includes lip liner, blush, and lipstick, is the smartest way to snag some top sellers and makes for a good gift.—
Gina Vaynshteyn,
StyleCaster,
29 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
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Kennedy, who has no background in science, medicine, or public health, is well known as an ardent anti-vaccine activist and peddler of conspiracy theories.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2026
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At the same time, a backlog of 18,000 merchant mariner credentials has built up, delaying the certification of workers essential to maritime commerce.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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At the mall’s food court, customers frequently pay using an app that grants small credit lines affiliated to certain merchants.—
CNN Staff,
CNN Money,
23 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 1 May. 2026.
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