单词 | huckster |
释义 | huck·ster I. 1. 2. a. archaic b. 3. a. < home is not the plastic chromium dream … the hucksters promised to them — R.W.Kenny > specifically < hucksters speak only to sponsors; and sponsors don't speak at all, they read sales charts — Walter Goodman > < a syrupy-voiced huckster proclaiming the virtues of Dinkelspiel's Deodorant — Bennett Cerf > b. < the most adroit huckster of $1000 trinkets in our time — Maurice Zolotow > < minds taught to respond without reflection to the slogans of our political hucksters — New Republic > II. intransitive verb < huckster over prices on the black market > transitive verb 1. < huckster fresh eggs > < huckster real estate > < huckster his services > 2. < a store where cheap stuff is ballyhooed and huckstered into seeming richness — C.W.Drepperd > |
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