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• n  someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
• n  an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

• On the sunny sidewalk outside a bookstore on Hollywood's North Vermont Avenue, a legless pencil peddler had set up his pitch.
• INVESTIGATIONS One Man's Greed(See Cover) He was a peddler's son, a puny boy born in the shadow of the el in a Boston slum.
• Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk.

• pedlar
• packman
• hawker
• pitchman
• pusher
• drug peddler
• drug dealer
• drug trafficker

News & Articles

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• Several ordinances amended or added
  • The peddlers ordinance, which dated to 1958, was repealed. It set the fee for peddler permits at $1 a day. • A new peddlers ordinance was adopted. It delegates the responsibility for issuing permits to the police chief. Fees are to be determined later.
  June 12, 2013 - Reading Eagle
• Police caution residents against scams
  The city of Branson would like to remind citizens to be cautious of scams. This can include price gauging, phony charitable donations, unlicensed repairmen or contractors and individuals attempting to sell products door-to-door without a peddler’s license. Also, beware of contractors offering repairs at a low cost, but requiring full payment up front.
  June 7, 2013 - Branson Tri-Lakes News
• New Screen Of GTA V Surfaces In Red Dead Redemption: GOTY Edition Box
  A flier for Grand Theft Auto V included in a new boxed copy of Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition reveals a new screenshot of the game. The scan of the screen was posted to GTAforums.com by a user named, ahem, TheSmutPeddler. According to Mr. Peddler, "This was inside a new copy of "red dead redemption Game of the year" edition for Xbox. I just opened it today and there was a GTA 5 ...
  June 7, 2013 - Game Informer

Quotes

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• Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona Republic
  I get teased because I talk a lot about hope and bringing people together and leaving behind the divisions of the past. Sometimes, the reporters, the folks in Washington, say I'm being naive. They call me a hope-monger, a hope-peddler. But I am... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul02/0,4670,CampaignMoney,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH-mBsz1vmU_Y7aYv7SR5j3pWLWpQ Jul 2, 2007 73079 97775 peddler If the customer pays a dope peddler money, he's violated the law," Arpaio said.