hooker-in
hooker-in noun: a person hired to bring customers into a store.
Noun
hooker-in (plural hookers-in)
- A person hired to bring customers into a store.
- These gentlemen are Hookers-in; or, as they more euphoniously style themselves, Commercial Solicitors. Their employers are the country trade merchants of Manchester; their duty is to stand at the door of their respective warehouses "from morn till dewy eve," there to take forcible possession of...1843, “Commercial Solicitors”, in The North of England Magazine, volume II, number XVI, page 419
- […] let us observe that the method of business at some of the second-rate houses is not always so straightforward. Many descend to the petty expedient of employing touters (hookers in, they are called), who frequent the railway stations and the coffee-rooms of inns, and hook in the unwary draper to...1854, Charles Dickens, “A Manchester Warehouse”, in Household Words, volume XXV, page 399
Forms of hooker-in
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Questions about hooker-in
- What does hooker-in mean?
- Hooker-in means a person hired to bring customers into a store.
- What part of speech is hooker-in?
- Hooker-in is a noun.
- What is the plural of hooker-in?
- The plural of hooker-in is hookers-in.
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