peddler

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

peddler
    n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the
         streets or at carnivals) [syn: {peddler}, {pedlar},
         {packman}, {hawker}, {pitchman}]
    2: an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs [syn: {pusher}, {drug
       peddler}, {peddler}, {drug dealer}, {drug trafficker}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peddler \Ped"dler\, n. [OE. pedlere, pedlare, also peddare,
   peoddare, fr. OE. ped a basket, of unknown origin.]
   One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about,
   retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also {pedlar} and
   {pedler}.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." --Hakluyt.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "peddler":
      arab, cadger, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, cheapjack,
      colporteur, coster, costermonger, duffer, hawker, higgler,
      huckster, monger, pusher, roadman, sidewalk salesman, vendor

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