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Spruik and Tout Definitions

Spruik

To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.

Tout

To promote or praise energetically; publicize
"For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).

Tout

To solicit or importune
Street vendors who were touting pedestrians.

Tout

Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.

Tout

To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
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Tout

Chiefly British To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.

Tout

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).

Tout

Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.

Tout

Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.

Tout

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.
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Tout

A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

Tout

(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

Tout

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

Tout

(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Tout

(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
Mary has been touted as a potential succesor to the current CEO.

Tout

To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).

Tout

To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.

Tout

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.

Tout

To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.

Tout

(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

Tout

(obsolete) To look upon or watch.

Tout

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

Tout

To ply or seek for customers.

Tout

To look narrowly; spy.

Tout

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.

Tout

To toot a horn.

Tout

To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.

Tout

One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.

Tout

One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; - usually contemptuous.

Tout

One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.

Tout

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.

Tout

In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Tout

The anus.

Tout

Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

Tout

Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

Tout

One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

Tout

Advertize in strongly positive terms;
This product was touted as a revolutionary invention

Tout

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