STREET VENDOR
NOUNS, PERSON
1596 ► VENDER one who sells; a seller; sometimes in restricted sense, a street-seller
M19. ► PAPER WORKER a street seller of broadsides → sl.
1850 ► STREET-PITCHER a vendor or a mendicant taking a station (or ‘pitch’) in the street → sl.
1851 ► HAND-SELLER a street-dealer who carries his stock-in-trade in a basket, tray, or the like
1851 ► UMBRELLA MAN a street-vendor who displays his wares in an inverted open umbrella
1851 ► UMBRELLA PRINT-SELLER a street-vendor who displays his wares in an inverted open umbrella
1859 ► FAKER an itinerant artisan, mechanic, or tradesman; hence, a peddler, street vendor, pitchman, or travelling showman → sl.
1860 ► BIBLE-CARRIER a street-seller of songs who offers the sheet-music but does not give a performance to encourage sales → UK sl. (Bk.)
1892 ► GUTTER-MAN a street vendor of cheap jewellery, fancy articles, toys, etc.
1893 ► FAKIR an itinerant artisan, mechanic, or tradesman; hence, a peddler, street vendor, pitchman, or travelling showman → sl.
1896 ► GUTTER-MERCHANT a street vendor of cheap jewellery, fancy articles, toys, etc.
1899 ► KERB-STONE MERCHANT a street-dealer
1950 ► HAWKSTER a hawker, a street vendor or itinerant peddler → Amer. dial.
VERBS
M19. ► MAKE A POCKET to make money; e.g. as a street-seller → sl.
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