Tout

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
  • verb-intransitive. To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
  • v. To solicit or importune: street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
  • v. Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
  • v. To promote or praise energetically; publicize: "For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks” ( Yanick Rice Lamb).
  • n. Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
  • n. One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently: "The administration of the nation's literary affairs falls naturally into the hands of touts and thieves” ( Lewis H. Lapham).
  • n. Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
  • n. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win
  • v. To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To act as a tout. See 2d tout.
  • verb-intransitive. To ply or seek for customers.
  • verb-intransitive. To look narrowly; spy.
  • verb-intransitive.
  • verb-intransitive. To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
  • verb-intransitive. To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse.
  • n. One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
  • n. One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; -- usually contemptuous.
  • n. One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.
  • n. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
  • n. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
  • verb-intransitive. To toot a horn.
  • v. To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.
  • v. To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings.
  • n. The anus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To look about; spy; specifically, in modern racing slang, to spy out the movements of race-horses at training.
  • To look about for customers; solicit custom, employment, or the like.
  • To follow.
  • n. Same as touter.
  • n. In horse-racing, a person who clandestinely watches the trials of race-horses at their training quarters and for a fee gives information for betting purposes.
  • n. In the game of solo, a play when one person takes or proposes to take all the tricks. Also touter.
  • n. The buttocks; the backside; the fundament.
  • To pout; be seized with a sudden fit of ill humor.
  • n. A pet; a huff; a fit of ill humor.
  • n. A fit or slight attack of illness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
  • n. one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
  • v. advertize in strongly positive terms
  • v. show off
  • n. someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
  • Verb Form
    touted    toutes    touting    touts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    advertizer    advertiser    adman    judge    label    pronounce    scalper   
    Cross Reference
    tout court   
    Form
    touted    touting    ticket tout   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spy    solicitor    solicit    pitchman    barker    spruiker    spruik    pimp    promote    pitch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Kraut    Redoubt    about    all-out    bout    clout    crout    devout    doubt    drought   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ce    qu'il    fait    encore    comme    aussi    quelque    donc    par    Cette