📖 Definitions of "Tout"
noun
- 1
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
"Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits."
- 2
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
- 3
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
- 4
An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
verb
- 1
To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
"Mary has been touted as a potential succesor to the current COE."
- 2
To look upon or watch.
- 3
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
- 4
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
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