barker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++bark·er /ˈbɑːkə $ ˈbɑːrkər/ noun [countable] BODLOin the past, someone who stood outside a place where there was a circus or fair, shouting to people to come in 〔过去在马戏场或集市外面〕大声招揽顾客的人
Examples from the Corpus
barker• Movies were announced to the world by electric signs, posters, music, and barkers.• Spent three days as roustabout and barker with the jerry Lepke Ten-in-One Carnival.• Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes, and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse?• There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it.• McMurphy drew eyes to him like a sideshow barker.bark·er nounChineseSyllable
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barker
bark‧er /ˈbɑːkə $ ˈbɑːrkər/
noun [countable]
in the past, someone who stood outside a place where there was a circus or FAIR, shouting to people to come in
bark‧er /ˈbɑːkə $ ˈbɑːrkər/
noun [countable]in the past, someone who stood outside a place where there was a circus or FAIR, shouting to people to come in
Barker
Barker, Pat
(1943–) a British writer whose best-known novel, Regeneration, is about the lives of people who lived through the First World War. It was written in three parts, the last of which, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize in 1995.
Barker, Ron‧nie /ˈrɒni $ ˈrɑː-/
(1929–2005) a British actor and comedian who was best known for appearing in British television programmes during the 1980s such as Porridge, Open All Hours, and especially The Two Ronnies, in which he performed with Ronnie Corbett.
Barker, Sue /suː/
(1956–), a British tennis player who was one of the best in the world in the late 1970s. After she stopped playing tennis, she became a television sports presenter.
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(1943–) a British writer whose best-known novel, Regeneration, is about the lives of people who lived through the First World War. It was written in three parts, the last of which, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize in 1995.
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(1929–2005) a British actor and comedian who was best known for appearing in British television programmes during the 1980s such as Porridge, Open All Hours, and especially The Two Ronnies, in which he performed with Ronnie Corbett.
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(1956–), a British tennis player who was one of the best in the world in the late 1970s. After she stopped playing tennis, she became a television sports presenter.