📖 Definitions of "Barkers"
- 1
Someone or something who barks.
"My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night."
- 2
A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
"Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint."
- 3
A shelf-talker.
- 4
A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
"The barker mode of the arcade video game convinced the teenager to spend a quarter."
- 1
A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
"The professor of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably."
- 2
A tanner.
"The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname."
- 3
A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
"Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts."
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