English to Afrikaans Meaning of barker - Barker

Barker :

Barker

noun

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Barker :: BarkerBarkers :: barkers

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Definitions of barker in English

Noun(1) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival(2) informal terms for dogs

Examples of barker in English

(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: ├ö├ç├┐One more car, one more rider,├ö├ç├û 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 BÔö£ÔòØchner'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: ├ö├ç├┐The time: now├ö├ç┬¬ which brings us to├ö├ç┬¬ the third and most important player├ö├ç├û.(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.

Related Phrases of barker

Related Phrases of barker

Synonyms

Noun

1. doggy ::

doggy

2. pooch ::

pooch

4. bow-wow ::

Woef

Different Forms

barker, barkers

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