rare. [f. TRUCK v.1 + -STER.] A base trafficker; cf. TRUCK v.1 3.
1815. Royal Cornwall Gaz., 4 March, 1/3. They had now descended from the eminence on which they then stood to become hucksters and trucksters for territory.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Death Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, v.
| Not for base-born, higgling Saxon trucksters | |
| Ring laments like these by shore and sea; | |
| Not for churls with souls of hucksters | |
| Waileth our Banshee! |
1868. Tuckerman, Collector, 83. Many a poet has degenerated into a hack, a truckster, and a mercenary penman.