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peddler noun- a prisoner who sells goods to other prisoners US
- Cuba is what is known in present prison jargon as a peddler. He is a real hustler in the sense that if there is anything in the way of contraband to be obtained within the prison, such as eggs, meat, grease, winter overshoes, coats, shirts, tailor made pants, special hair preparations, after-shave lotions, etc., he is the man to see. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 157, 1980
- on the railways, a local freight train US, 1960
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 113, 1977
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