barker

Plural: barkers

Noun

• A person who shouts at a fair or circus to attract customers.
• someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
• informal terms for dogs
• Someone or something who barks.
• A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
• A shelf-talker.
• A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
• A pistol.
• The spotted redshank.
• A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
• A tanner.
• A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.

Examples

• Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
• He acted as a barker for the word QI, proclaiming its high point value.
• My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
• Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
• The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.
• The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
• The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.

Synonyms

bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch, barking iron, latrant, spruiker, tout