barrow-boys
Pushcart market sellers
Barrow-boys are British street vendors who sell goods from a barrow—a shallow, open cart traditionally pushed by hand.
The term evokes working-class London markets and a certain cheeky, entrepreneurial spirit.
It often carries connotations of someone shrewd and streetwise, perhaps a bit rough around the edges: He had the quick patter of a barrow-boy selling fruit at the market.
The singular barrow-boy is more common.
Street sellers who shout
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- pitchesThrows or proposals
- cartsSmall wheeled vehicles
- produceMake or manufacture
wholesale · traders · peddlers · merchants · handcarts · greengrocers · stallholders · wholesalers
hawkers
Street sellers who shout
produce · wholesale · traders · peddlers · merchants · handcarts · greengrocers · stallholders · wholesalers · pushcarts
traders
Professional buyers and sellers
- CityIncorporated urban area
- dealersThose who sell merchandise
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
brokers · flashy · Essex · spivs · chancers · deregulation · bonuses · brash · loud · wheeler-dealers
boys, boyish, boyhood, wheelbarrow, barrow, wheelbarrows, barrows, handbarrow, barrow-boy