Nounhucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers
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But six seasons later, creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan have the last laugh, after transforming the huckster comic relief of one of the all-time-great TV dramas into a prestige series that stands toe to toe with its predecessor. Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022 Luhrmann seems more interested in the huckster than in the artist.New York Times, 23 June 2022 Traveling huckster Hill, newly arrived in River City, Iowa, is selling his con — a kids’ band — by disparaging the game of pool. Celia Wren, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, has died at 83. Paul W. Valentine, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022 Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, has died at 83. Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post, 30 June 2022 He was called a showman, a huckster, a one-man publicity machine, a sham crusader addicted to putting himself in the spotlight. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 June 2022 Trump remains not only an e-mail-fund-raising huckster but also the subject of historical inquiry. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022 Seehorn, as the equally complicated Kim, a budding lawyer who managed to escape her past as the daughter of a huckster — only to wind up being married to another. Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 June 2022 See More
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Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, from hoeken to peddle