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traveling salesman

n. (alternative form of travelling salesman English)

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traveling salesman

n. a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn: travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]

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Traveling Salesman (1921 film)

Traveling Salesman is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. It is based on a 1908 play, The Traveling Salesman, by James Grant Forbes. A 1916 film of the play starred Frank McIntyre who had also starred in the play. The survival status of both films is classified as unknown, which suggests that they are lost films.

Usage examples of "traveling salesman".

The new boy in town, the one who had a traveling salesman as a father.

It kept coming, big and mean, intent on an early lunch of traveling salesman.

He's a traveling salesman who lives in the apartment opposite the one you're in.

I realized I was beginning to cross and re-cross towns in America as though I were a traveling salesman -raggedy travelings, bad stock, rotten beans in the bottom of my bag of tricks, nobody buying.

So if a traveling salesman's daughter comes into Callahan's Bar on Tall Tales Night - whose daughter is going to turn out to be his downfall?

So if a traveling salesman's daughter comes into Callahan's Bar on Tall Tales Night-whose daughter is going to turn out to be his downfall?

She took a tube of toothpaste from an inside pocket of her vest, and before the traveling salesman could move, she had circled his knees where they crossed with a loop of toothpaste.

Also, no one in their right mind would try a simple exhaustive search method on the Traveling Salesman Problem.