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What is a snake oil saleman?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 11/13/2022

A con artist; a disreputable businessman. In the nineteenth century when there was no licencing of medicine, fast-talking salesmen would go around selling "snake oil" or other useless concoctions to unsuspecting customers.

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