Definition of "huckster" []

• One who sells wares or provisions in the street; a peddler or hawker. (noun)
• One who uses aggressive, showy, and sometimes devious methods to promote or sell a product. (noun)
• Informal One who writes advertising copy, especially for radio or television. (noun)
• To sell; peddle. (verb-transitive)
• To promote or attempt to sell (a commercial product, for example) in an overaggressive or showy manner. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger."
• "A prop-betting huckster is making sure all his bets are +EV, and is very calculating about how to play the social aspects to encourage people to make - EV bets."
• "Al Sharpton - It says alot about the Democratic party that this race-baiting huckster is even allowed on stage, let alone taken seriously."