Noun: peddler pe-d(u-)lur
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: pedlar)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: pedlar)
- 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]
- 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