"barker" Definition

  1. a man employed to cry at the doors of “gaffs,” shows, and puffing shops, to entice people inside. Among touting photographers he is called a doorsman.

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Position in the dictionary: 104 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: barking-iron, barn stormers, barnacles, barney, barrikin, bash, baste, bastile, bat, bats
Previous words in the dictionary: bark, barge, barber’s clerk, barber’s cat, bar, banyan-day, bantling, bank, bang-up, bang

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