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Noun(1) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival(2) informal terms for dogs(3) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers

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(1) Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical takes you on a romantic ride of romance as the carousel barker Billy Bigelow falls in love with local town girl Julie Jordan.(2) Yeah, there's a carny barker , but there's also kind of a desperate, Willy Loman-like quality to my endless hucksterism.(3) If you get up and scream as if you're a fairground barker , an incredible energy has to come through.(4) Judge Moore is a carnival barker , playing this for all he can, getting those born-every-minute suckers to genuflect before a hunk of stone while he does his proselytizing before the television cameras.(5) The best moment, and most shameless use of the medium ever, consists of a barker drumming up business for the wax museum by whapping a paddleball RIGHT INTO THE CAMERA!(6) Clapton was captivated by the rhythm and poignancy of: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510One more car, one more rider,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb as the barker tried to fill the last seat in the last car before the ride started and decided to use it for this scintillating album.(7) Wood observes that the revised version added a barker 's spiel at the beginning and end, which sensationalizes the freaks and their violence.(8) He's become a carnival barker in this whole twisted sideshow.(9) The clearest example of Herzog's and presumably Bu00d4u00f6u00a3u00d4u00f2u00d8chner's point is the scene with the sideshow barker and his subjugated monkey in the silk and tassels of a high-ranking soldier.(10) His monologue has the theatrical showmanship of a barker or a master of ceremonies: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The time: nowu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac which brings us tou251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac the third and most important playeru251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(11) Then the doors slide open, and a straw-hatted barker who looks like he's just stepped out of the 19th century greets you and ushers you into a Coca-Cola fantasyland.(12) He is almost a sideshow barker for his car, and leaves many of the details of his imagination to his engineers to make reality.(13) He worked as a barker at the 1939 World's Fair and as a tour guide at NBC before making his Broadway debut in the lead in Emlyn Williams's Morning Star.(14) He wore this really ugly jacket with wide lapels that were embroidered at the edges so he looked like a cross between a carnival barker and a train conductor.(15) This, along with a change of stance and voice, is enough to populate the stage with a sadistic nun, a carnival barker , a sleazy dancer and, of course, wide-eyed Francesca.(16) Better still: as a DVD bonus, the folks at Something Weird also include a short unedited collection of newsreel footage showing real life sideshow performers and barkers from the thirties.