supersell

English

Etymology

super- +‎ sell

Verb

supersell (third-person singular simple present supersells, present participle superselling, simple past and past participle supersold)

1. (transitive) To sell in great quantities.
   • 1978, Graham Kerr, The love feast, page 81:

     We are now a nation growing up with our earliest instincts'^[sic] being "adjusted" to a technological food manufacture — to respond to good-looking dead food is right, and to turn away from this supersold garbage is to encourage criticism.

   • 2003, Samuel Crowther, A Basis for Stability, page 282:

     The day of superselling and all that sort of thing is past. A good article does not need supersalesmanship, while a poor article can no longer be moved by any kind of salesmanship.

Anagrams

• upsellers