barker

Meanings

Plural: barkers

Noun

• 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.

Synonyms

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