pitchman
Americannoun
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pitchmen
plural
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an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
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any high-pressure salesperson, as one at a concession at a fair or carnival.
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a person who delivers a message on radio or television, as for a product, cause, etc.
noun
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an itinerant pedlar of small merchandise who operates from a stand at a fair, etc
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any high-pressure salesman or advertiser
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Norris also maintained other income steams, including a long-running role as a pitchman for the Total Gym line of exercise equipment, promoting his fitness regimen well into his 80s.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
But, for now, the former prince’s first brush with justice has come from a seemingly more mundane matter: the apparent forwarding of emails to Epstein in his role as Britain’s trade pitchman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
He’s the pitchman for a Dan Ives–branded exchange-traded fund of big companies in the artificial-intelligence business.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
“Consider these moving Pet Rocks,” a pitchman said on TV.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
A trapper, the pitchman of a medicine show.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
On social media, chains are trying to turn their top executives into pitchmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Booking.com has enlisted the Muppets to get you to rent an all-inclusive in the Bahamas, and they score some points for bringing on Statler and Waldorf as pitchmen.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025
There is no patron saint of Los Angeles pitchmen, and really, there should be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Stick advertising logos all over their uniforms like stock cars and let the players be pitchmen.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
He cried for himself and for his family—for his parents, who had lived their whole lives in a kind of dreamless and embittered sleep, haunted by phantasms and suckered by the empty promises of pitchmen.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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