Hooker-in
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hooker-in is a noun meaning (archaic) A person hired to bring customers into a store.
Meaning
(archaic) A person hired to bring customers into a store.
Example Sentences
Then arose, early in the nineteenth century, a curious class of independent salesmen known as "hookers-in." These were employed by the textile warehouses of manufacturers and merchants to bring in new customers
[…] let us observe that the method of business at some of the second-rate houses is not always so straightforward. Many descend to the petty expedient of employing touters (hookers in, they are called), who frequent the railway stations and the coffee-rooms of inns, and hook in the unwary draper to their employers' dens. […] When the honest country draper meets with a hooker-in, when he is hooked by the button-hole on the railway platform, he had better beware.
Word Forms
- hookers-in
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hookman, roper, roper-in, lugger, picker-up, jobber.
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