pitchman

1 an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something

2 someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker]

English

Noun

pitchman

1. A salesman, especially, one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act.

Quotations

• "The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill." - Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, 1994

See also

• huckster
• spruiker

ballyhoo man, ballyhooer, barker, bunco artist, bunco steerer, canvasser, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, solicitor, spieler, tout, touter