PACKMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packman mean? 

• PACKMAN (noun)
  The noun PACKMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

  Familiarity information: PACKMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman

Hypernyms ("packman" is a kind of...):

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packman"):

chapman (archaic term for an itinerant peddler)

cheapjack (a peddler of inferior goods)

crier (a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells)

muffin man (formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins)

sandboy (a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in 'happy as a sandboy')

transmigrante (a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell)

 Context examples 

“Do you think that a cavalier's arm is to be bought like a packman's ware. By St. Paul! I have little doubt that this fellow hath some very good cause to hold you in hatred.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)