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pitchman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, American English, from pitch (n.1) in the sales sense + man (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler , pedlar , packman , hawker ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A salesman, especially one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act.
Usage examples of pitchman.
Gipper goes into private practice now -- look for him as a TV pitchman for G.
As the popularity of his chicken grew, Sanders soon sold hundreds of franchises and eventually became the high-profile pitchman for the booming fast-food chicken industry in America.
Western pitchman, I ought to see how I measure up across a gaming table.
The pitchman put his hands on the counter and leaned forward confidentially.
Billy made nine-year-old strides across the room and killed the pitchman, pink coat and all.
Bill Brunt, the wheeler-dealer lawyer from Hanover, Ontario, and Allister Grosart, the big-city pitchman from Toronto.
I told Millie to send the bastard back, and I got ready to blow him off fast if he turned out to be a dealer in snake oil or a pitchman for a lightbulb company.
She wanted to tell him that they could, they could signal the great pitchman in the sky and hop on that joyride and soar to the clouds, forgetting routines, mortgage payments and ex-husbands who thrived on the thirst for murder.
I found myself at loose ends and low on capital, I came upon a street pitchman selling hair ribbons for two cents apiece.
Even hawking brandy or frozen peas, the voice was a powerful instrument That Welles had to compete with Welles imitators for gigs as a commercial pitchman was one of the tragedies of the modern age.
Soon the pitchman would thrust his head through the doorway of the tent to tell me to be gone.
Klein did a fair imitation of a RonCo TV pitchman when he was drunk, and he launched into it.
The canvas was tattered and dirty, the bunting faded and cheap, the pitchmen sleazy, the milling students bestial.
Now the tattooed man, the midgets, dwarves, hustlers, the women from the girly shows, the pitchmen, the bottle-pitch and ring-toss operators, the man who made cotton candy for a living, the woman who dipped apples in caramel sauce, the bearded lady, the three-eyed man, and all the others were asleep or fighting insomnia or making love as if they were ordinary citizens-which, in this world, they were.
The pitchmen say you know how to draw the marks, and with a few more years under your belt, you might even become the best talker on the lot.