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• n  an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something
• n  someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

• Now Li has his eyes set on the worldwide market for affordable shoes, and has signed basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal as a pitchman.
• TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal.
• With his chiseled jaw and winning smile, Liu has already been tapped as a pitchman for Coca-Cola and Nike.

• peddler
• pedlar
• packman
• hawker

News & Articles

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• Feds urge jail for pitchman Kevin Trudeau
  After two decades of tangling with infomercial king Kevin Trudeau, federal attorneys in Chicago on Wednesday asked that the pitchman be put in jail for ignoring court orders.
  June 26, 2013 - ABC 7 Chicago
• George Zimmer Fires Back In Men's Wearhouse War Of Words
  It has been a week since Men's Wearhouse ousted its founder, executive chairman and advertising pitchman George Zimmer, but he is hardly fading quietly into the background.
  June 26, 2013 - Forbes
• Former auto pitchman Chris Bostick receives probation in exchange for plea
  Former auto pitchman Chris Bostick entered a conditional plea of "no contest" in a Williamson County courtroom Monday morning.
  June 24, 2013 - WKRN Nashville

Quotes

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• Nick Saban in SportingNews.com
  When he's a quarterback, they're basically a spread-out offense running a lot of wishbone principles, creating a pitchman with somebody going in motion and running a misdirection zone read,says Alabama coach Nick Saban. "You have to have...
• Kyle Petty in ESPN
  I never dreamed about signing autographs, doing commercials, being a pitchman,Petty said. "I dreamed about being a race car driver. That was my dream when I was 9 years old, never this. But our sport has always been driven by the marketing...
• William Galvin in Boston Globe (registration)
  We know about Revere's ride, we know about his trade,says Galvin. "But did we know he was the first advertising pitchman? The first political consultant to the Revolution?"