huckster

noun

ˈhək-stər How to pronounce huckster (audio)
Definition of hucksternext
as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers

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Recent Examples of huckster This place is a huckster’s dream. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026 Del Toro was such an amiable huckster. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025 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 While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead. — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for huckster
Recent Examples of Synonyms for huckster
  1. vendor
  2. seller
  3. peddler
  4. merchant
  5. hawker
  6. dealer
Noun
  • The chancellor and his team should use this misstep as inspiration to upend the DOE’s profoundly frustrating, bureaucratic and slow procurement system to save taxpayer dollars and get vendors swiftly paid.
    — Lincoln Restler, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026
  • There are seemingly miles of vendors and antiques experts speeding their way from booth-to-booth with a Hulken bag of their wares trailing behind.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 18 July 2026
Definition of vendor
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  • How a short-seller became a culture‑war combatant Most people have hobbies or interests.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • This deal from an Amazon seller brings the price down to $1,195, with the official Amazon listing on sale for $1,199.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of seller
Noun
  • That great-grandfather, Gurbachan Singh Maan, had come to Britain in the 1930s as a peddler, walking the lanes of southeast England with a bicycle and an armful of scarves, towels and handkerchiefs.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of peddler
Noun
  • Card authorizations clear within minutes, Pastore said, and the company mines that stream continuously to track consumer spending for economists, banks and merchants.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • His parents were Taishanese immigrants from Guangdong, China, who worked as merchants in San Francisco’s Chinatown before moving back to China.
    — Claire Ke, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Definition of merchant
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
  • When Dean Fuleihan was first deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio, Fuleihan spearheaded a very effective multi-agency enforcement plan that put the hawkers out of business.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
Definition of hawker
Noun
  • And while there are still comic artists and writers at small tables signing and sketching, and dealers selling original art out of binders in crates, a good chunk of the space is occupied by media and toy companies, trying to outdo one another.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
  • Betty Parsons’s importance in postwar American art history as a fearless, groundbreaking art dealer is indisputable.
    — John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026
Definition of dealer

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