peddling

Verb

peddle (third-person singular simple present peddles, present participle peddling, simple past and past participle peddled)

1. To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
   • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. To sell illegal narcotics.
   • - How much you think this stuff is worth?
     - Yeah, there must be a million bucks' worth.
     - Think we could peddle it?
     - Oh, you can always get rid of it.1974, 42:19 from the start, in Gone in 60 Seconds
3. (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
   • Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.2009, Michael John Beashel, Unshackled, page 166

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