How to pronounce hawk

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What hawk means

verb

Most people know hawk in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To carry goods around and shout to sell them

In a sentence: At the ballpark, a man hawked peanuts up and down the stairs.

Where it comes from: It was made from hawker, an older word for a seller who travels around. It is a different word from hawk, the bird.

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