: one that barks
especially
: a person who advertises by hawking at an entrance to a show
: one that removes or prepares bark
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Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Hell’s carnival barker leads visitors through a freak show with fire breathers, a knife thrower and the spawn of Satan himself.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Consummate carnival barker William Castle issued $1,000 life insurance policies (backed by Lloyds of London) with tickets to his 1958 fright-fast Macabre in the event that audience-members be scared to death.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2024
While these financial technologies have often been framed as either the shadowy domain of criminals or Lambo driving crypto bros, Harris has the chance to carve out a balanced path between naysayers and carnival barkers—empowering Americans, and America, to thrive in the emerging Web3 economy.
—Tonya Evans, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Noun
And yes, so does fraud, and brazen lying, and the P. T. Barnum, carnival barker stuff.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Hell’s carnival barker leads visitors through a freak show with fire breathers, a knife thrower and the spawn of Satan himself.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Consummate carnival barker William Castle issued $1,000 life insurance policies (backed by Lloyds of London) with tickets to his 1958 fright-fast Macabre in the event that audience-members be scared to death.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2024
While these financial technologies have often been framed as either the shadowy domain of criminals or Lambo driving crypto bros, Harris has the chance to carve out a balanced path between naysayers and carnival barkers—empowering Americans, and America, to thrive in the emerging Web3 economy.
—Tonya Evans, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Barker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barker. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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