PEDDLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peddler mean? 

• PEDDLER (noun)
  The noun PEDDLER has 2 senses:

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

2. an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

  Familiarity information: PEDDLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDDLER (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 ("peddler" 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 "peddler"):

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)

Derivation:

peddle (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drug dealer; drug peddler; drug trafficker; peddler; pusher

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

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

dealer (a seller of illicit goods)

Derivation:

peddle (sell or offer for sale from place to place)