pack·man

(păk′măn′, -mən)

A peddler.

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packman

(ˈpækmən)

n, pl -men

(Commerce) a travelling salesman

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pack•man

(ˈpæk mən)

n., pl. -men.

peddler.

[1615–25]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

packman - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman

chapman - archaic term for an itinerant peddler

cheapjack - a peddler of inferior goods

crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

muffin man - formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins

sandboy - a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'

marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

transmigrante - a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell

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An' I thought first I'd ha' ferrets an' dogs, an' be a rat-catcher; an' then I thought as I should like a bigger way o' life, as I didn't know so well; for I'n seen to the bottom o' rat-catching; an' I thought, an' thought, till at last I settled I'd be a packman,--for they're knowin' fellers, the packmen are,--an' I'd carry the lightest things I could i' my pack; an' there'd be a use for a feller's tongue, as is no use neither wi' rats nor barges.

An' I'n changed one o' the suvreigns to buy my mother a goose for dinner, an' I'n bought a blue plush wescoat, an' a sealskin cap,--for if I meant to be a packman, I'd do it respectable.

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"Do you think that a cavalier's arm is to be bought like a packman's ware.

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