| peddler | | |
| n. (person) | 1. hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman | someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals). |
| ~ chapman | archaic term for an itinerant peddler. |
| ~ cheapjack | a peddler of inferior goods. |
| ~ crier | a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells. |
| ~ muffin man | formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins. |
| ~ sandboy | a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'. |
| ~ marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor | someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money. |
| ~ transmigrante | a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell. |
| n. (person) | 2. drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher | an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs. |
| ~ criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| ~ dealer | a seller of illicit goods.; "a dealer in stolen goods" |
| go around | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. go around | be sufficient.; "There's not enough to go around" |
| ~ suffice, answer, do, serve | be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" |
| v. (communication) | 2. circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ disseminate, circulate, pass around, broadcast, circularise, diffuse, circularize, spread, disperse, distribute, propagate | cause to become widely known.; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 3. go around, outflank | go around the flank of (an opposing army). |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 4. go around, revolve, rotate | turn on or around an axis or a center.; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" |
| ~ drive in, screw | cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion.; "drive in screws or bolts" |
| ~ screw | turn like a screw. |
| ~ circumvolve, rotate | cause to turn on an axis or center.; "Rotate the handle" |
| ~ wheel, wheel around | change directions as if revolving on a pivot.; "They wheeled their horses around and left" |
| ~ spin, spin around, gyrate, reel, whirl | revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" |
| ~ swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl | turn in a twisting or spinning motion.; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" |
| ~ turn | move around an axis or a center.; "The wheels are turning" |
| v. (communication) | 5. bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit | avoid something unpleasant or laborious.; "You cannot bypass these rules!" |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| wander | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ maunder | wander aimlessly. |
| ~ gad, gallivant, jazz around | wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. |
| ~ drift, err, stray | wander from a direct course or at random.; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" |
| ~ wander | go via an indirect route or at no set pace.; "After dinner, we wandered into town" |
| v. (social) | 2. betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander | be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ two-time | carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time. |
| ~ play around, fool around | commit adultery.; "he plays around a lot" |
| v. (motion) | 3. wander | go via an indirect route or at no set pace.; "After dinner, we wandered into town" |
| ~ roam, rove, stray, vagabond, wander, ramble, range, swan, drift, tramp, cast, roll | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" |
| ~ meander, thread, wind, wander, weave | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" |
| ~ go forward, proceed, continue | move ahead; travel onward in time or space.; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" |
| v. (motion) | 4. meander, thread, wander, weave, wind | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ snake | move along a winding path.; "The army snaked through the jungle" |
| ~ wander | go via an indirect route or at no set pace.; "After dinner, we wandered into town" |
| v. (communication) | 5. digress, divagate, stray, wander | lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" |
| ~ tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
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