: one who hawks wares
The sidewalks are filled with hawkers selling vegetables and trinkets and women in blankets roasting cobs of corn on makeshift fires.—
Richard Stengal
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Noun (2)
street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
Unregistered hawker & peddler ordinance.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
Unregistered hawker & peddler ordinance.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for hawker
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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hawker. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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