n.
1. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
2. A flamboyant charlatan.
v., -banked, -bank·ing, -banks.
v.intr.
To act as a mountebank.
v.tr. Archaic.
To ensnare or prevail over with trickery.
e.g. don draper is a mountebank of highfalutin proportions.
almost caught up to the current episode. limit your exposure.
tip o' the cap to brandon for introducing that word to my lexicon.
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