truckstern.
/ˈtrʌkstə/ rare.
A base trafficker; cf. truck v.1 3.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid
broker1393
hucker14..
huckster1556
trucker1598
hucksterer1724
truckster1843
trade rat1876
grey marketeer1942
grey marketer1943
cowboy1972
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > hack
hack writer1711
garreteer1720
hack authora1734
hack1798
truckster1843
hodman1849
ghost1881
devil1888
deviller1893
ghostwriter1908
1843 Knickerbocker 22 38 All relics of a former age..exposed for sale in the windows of the trucksters.
1868 H. T. Tuckerman Collector 83 Many a poet..has degenerated into a hack, a truckster, and a mercenary penman.
1916 H. J. Laski in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 40 It gets very nauseating to have the measure of progress taken as a commercial truckster might measure it.
1931 A. Uttley Country Child v. 69 He had a pack on his back containing..all the odds and ends of the truckster.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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- contact of the first order
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- contact or handgoniometer
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- contact potential
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