hawk

/hɔːk/ verb informal

Definition

› to sell goods in the street or a public place: Street vendors hawk tea, watches, T-shirts, chickens, and just about everything else. Most major businesses hawk their wares on the Net.

› disapproving to try to interest a person or company in a product, idea, etc.: hawk sth around to sb/sth He has written a guide to finances which he plans to hawk around to all the major publishers.

(Definition of hawk verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)