peddle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.

2. 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.
3. 3

   To spread or cause to spread.

   • Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
   • Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
   • Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
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   1. 4

      A surname.

The neighborhood

• neighborpeddler
• neighborpedlar
• neighborpeddling