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hawker

[haw-ker] / ˈhɔ kər /


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Or the gallant, pragmatic 8-year-old street hawker selling watercress in Victorian London: “All my money I earns I puts in a club and draws it out to buy clothes with.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Street food isn’t just hawker carts and smoke-filled alleys.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The ding on the movie is that Timothée Chalamet’s self-centered striver isn’t that different from Adam Sandler’s diamond hawker in “Uncut Gems.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

He is France's last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

Then the singsong cries of a beans hawker floated in through the window.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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