noun
- plural of coster; street vendors who sell fruits, vegetables, or other goods from carts or stalls
Usage: British; informal
Examples
- The costers set up their stalls early in the morning at the market.
- Traditional costers would call out to advertise their fresh produce.
- The old costers knew all their regular customers by name.
- Many costers have been replaced by modern supermarkets.
- The costers wheeled their barrows through the narrow streets.
- Local costers offered the freshest vegetables in the neighborhood.