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  • noun A man who wears a sandwich board.

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  • noun a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders

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Examples

  • He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.

    Ulysses 2003

  • I'll hire a sandwichman to stop people in the street and tell it to them.

    Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

  • Wandered without money over Europe, and was a sandwichman in London.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Mr Hearst's journals, here it is clearly used in the same hope which inspires the sandwichman to carry on his front the classic legend:

    American Sketches 1908 Charles Whibley 1894

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