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Noun: peddler  pe-d(u-)lur
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: pedlar)
  1. Someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
    "The peddler carried his goods from town to town, setting up his stall in marketplaces";
    - pedlar [Brit, Cdn], hawker, pitchman [N. Amer]
     
  2. An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
    "The police arrested a known drug peddler in the neighborhood";
    - pusher [informal], drug peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker, pedlar [Brit, Cdn], narco [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: peddlers

Type of: crim [Brit, informal], criminal, crook [informal], dealer, felon, malefactor [formal], marketeer, marketer, outlaw, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor

Encyclopedia: Peddler