In a message dated 6/13/2003 12:19:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I always thought it did. To me it meant it was someone who takes advantage > of someone else. I guess you lean something everyday. > Thanks, > Robin Stinson > Robin- I suppose there were good and bad hucksters but they were merely salesmen of a traveling sort. Might you be thinking of shyster? A shyster would be a crooked lawyer. That term carries a bad connotation. Joan