trafficker

/ˈtræfɪkər/

/ˈtræfɪkə/

Other forms: traffickers

Someone who delivers or sells illegal goods is a trafficker. Some traffickers move controlled substances or weapons from one state or country to another.

In some cases, a trafficker can also be called a smuggler. Traffickers deal in all kinds of goods, from drugs and guns to human beings — some traffickers illegally transport people across borders. To act as a trafficker is to traffic, to trade or sell something illicitly. The k in trafficker indicates how the word is pronounced.

Definitions of trafficker

1. noun

   someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
   synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor

   types:

   booking clerk, ticket agent

   someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations)

   cosmetician

   someone who sells or applies cosmetics

   flower girl

   a woman who sells flowers in the street

   fruiterer

   a person who sells fruit

   cheap-jack, huckster

   a seller of shoddy goods

   hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman

   someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

   selling agent

   someone who sells goods (on commission) for others

   dealer

   a seller of illicit goods

   underseller

   a seller that sells at a lower price than others do

   chapman

   archaic term for an itinerant peddler

   cheapjack

   a peddler of inferior goods

   crier

   a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

   muffin man

   formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins

   drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher

   an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

   sandboy

   a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'

   transmigrante

   a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell

   type of:

   merchandiser, merchant

   a businessperson engaged in retail trade