peddle

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Natalie Dylan and her ridiculously overpriced / underpriced virginity: I'm not in the market for what she's trying to peddle, and I kind of doubt that I would be, even if I wasn't married and had a kid.

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  1. transitive verb To travel about selling (wares): peddling goods from door to door.
  2. transitive verb To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
  3. transitive verb Informal To seek to disseminate; give out: peddling lies.
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  • "Worse yet, the products they peddle are questionable at best." —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
  • And then there's this argument that rightwing NSW Liberal powerbroker David Clarke always used to peddle (and perhaps still does) in factional gatherings: —  Planet Irf
  • This Saturday, thousands of Ahwatukee residents are expected to come together to march, ride, peddle or simply sit curbside to watch the 33rd Annual Kiwanis Easter Parade wind its way up 48th Street north from Warner Road. —  azcentral.com | news
  • With a cranky, sold-out septuagenarian and his flaky female sidekick to peddle, the McCain campaign has settled on a strategy of flooding the airwaves with falsehoods. —  Oh!pinion
  • Some then try to peddle or use the details or accounts they net in this way. —  BBC News | Technology | World Edition
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  1. Back-formation from peddler. V., intr., sense 2, probably influenced by piddle.

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  1. A back-formation from peddler, earlier peddler(cf. burgle, from burglar).
 

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/ˈpɛdl/
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