tout

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

touts

1.
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena; they are famed for selling counterfeits.
Đồng nghĩa: barker, pitchman, spruiker
2.
A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
3.
(colloquial)An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
4.
(archaic, colloquial)A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
5.
(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

touts

V_ing/Gerund

touting

V_ed/pp

touted

1.
(transitive)To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
Mary has been touted as a potential successor to the current CEO.
2.
(UK, slang, transitive)(UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
3.
(US, slang, transitive)(US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
4.
(UK, intransitive, slang)(UK, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
5.
(US, intransitive, slang)(US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
6.
(intransitive)To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.
7.
(obsolete)To look upon or watch.
Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.

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Đồng nghĩa

barker pitchman spruiker pimp pitch promote spruik

Cùng gốc / liên quan

ticket touttout courtmangetouttout ensemble

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English touten (to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer), from Old English *tūtian (to be sticking out, protrude), related to tȳtan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (to stick out, project). Compare túta, tútna (to be blown up). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (to stick out; project; peer out; peep), from toten, totien, from tōtian.