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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

The hawker tells the BBC it is unfortunate the government has broken its promises.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2023

Pastor Ambrose had come out of his room and was bargaining with the lizard hawker.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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