Definition of "huckster"

huckster

/ˈhʌkstɚ/

noun
plural hucksters
1. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
  Quotations
  drive those china hucksters from the doors
  1731 (date written, published 1745), Jonathan Swift, “Directions to Servants”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801
2. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
  Quotations
  Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
3. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
4. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
verb
third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered
1. (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
2. (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
3. (transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.