hard sell

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   forceful and insistent advertising

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Questions about hard sell

What does hard sell mean?

hard sell means "forceful and insistent advertising".

Is hard sell a common word?

hard sell is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.