BARKER

Barker

A barker is a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, such as a circus or funfair, by exhorting passing public, describing attractions of show and emphasizing variety, novelty, beauty, or some other feature believed to incite listeners to attend entertainment. A barker may conduct a brief free show, introducing performers and describing acts to be given at the feature performance. Professional barkers strongly dislike the term and instead refer to themselves as "talkers."

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barker

Noun

  1. Someone or something who barks.
  2. A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
  3. A shelf-talker.
  4. A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
  5. A pistol.
  6. The spotted redshank.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A person that removes the bark from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
    The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
  2. A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
    Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.


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