barker
noun/ˈbɑːkə(r)/
/ˈbɑːrkər/
- a person who stands outside a place where there is entertainment and shouts to people to go inWord Originlate Middle English: from bark ‘a sound made by dogs and some other animals’ + -er. The original sense was ‘a person or animal that barks; a noisy protestor’, hence the current sense (late 17th cent.).
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